home straight

英 [həʊm streɪt]

美 [hoʊm streɪt]

n.  (赛跑的)最后阶段，冲刺阶段; (活动等的)最后部分，接近完成的阶段

牛津词典

noun

• （赛跑的）最后阶段，冲刺阶段
  the last part of a race
• （活动等的）最后部分，接近完成的阶段
  the last part of an activity, etc. when it is nearly completed

双语例句

• New home prices were flat in Shanghai for the second straight month while they rose 0.4 percent from August in Guangzhou, one of the fastest in the country.
  上海新房价格连续二个月持平，然而广州（中国发展最快的城市之一）房价比8月份上涨0.4%。
• He was behaving so badly at school today, I wonder that he wasn't sent home straight away.
  他今天在学校的表现非常糟糕，但我奇怪他没有被马上打发回家。
• Holmes matched Boulmerka stride for stride down the home straight to finish second.
  霍姆斯在最后冲刺阶段和布尔梅卡齐头并进，最后获得了第二名。
• New home prices in China fell 0.9 per cent in July from June, government data showed on Monday, the third straight monthly drop.
  周一公布的政府数据显示，今年7月，新房均价环比下降0.9%，为连续第三个月下降。
• Its all too easy to come home, slump on the couch, and reach straight for the remote without even thinking.
  回到家中，窝在沙发里，想也不想就伸手拿遥控器，这一切都太容易了。
• Moreover, bankers have expressed disappointment that some would-be buyers have reached the advanced stages of a sales process only for their interest to fade on the home straight.
  另外，让银行家们感到失望的是，一些潜在买家已经到了出售过程的后期，但在最后冲刺阶段，兴趣却减退了。
• He sometimes sends patients home with a blue dot to put on their computer screens as a reminder to sit up straight and stretch and take a deep breath when they feel pain.
  有些时候，他会让患者把一个蓝色的圆点贴纸带回家贴到电脑上，以此提醒患者在感觉到酸痛时，应该坐直、舒展身体并深呼吸。
• He made a fast finishing burst and overtake the leaders on the home straight.
  他快速做最后的冲刺，在冲刺线前超过了领先者。
• I also knew that in the Usher family there had never been many children and so for hundreds of years the family name, together with the family home, had passed straight from father to son.
  我还知道，在鄂榭家族史上还从未有过子息繁盛的时候，于是，数百年来，家族的姓氏连同家族的宅第均是由父及子由子及孙一脉单传。
• Today, I came home from a weekend trip with some friends, and walked straight in on my girlfriend cheating on me.
  今天，我和几个朋友一起回家度周末，女友被我捉奸在床。