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

• Farrell:* so as usually I'd shoot home to Dublin straight away.
  所以，以前通常情况下我就直接回在都柏林的家了；
• 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。
• Don't let him drive home in that condition! He can't even see straight.
  别让他在这种状况下开车回家！他连东西都看不清楚。
• Anyone knows how no man comes home straight from work? No man comes home straight from work. A man get up while he got to go somewhere.
  大家都该知道没有男人下班了直接回家的吧没有男人下班了直接回家的。
• 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。
• Liuzzi lost ground on the opening lap and had to chase team mate Scott Speed all the way home, his STR01 hitting the rev limiter down the straight.
  里尤兹在一开始就失去了位置，只能追着自己的队友斯科特-斯毕德把车开回了终点，他的STR01赛车在直道上撞上了转速限制器。
• 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。
• New home prices across 70 cities tracked by the government fell by an average 0.9 per cent between June and July, the sharpest tumble in three straight declines, according to a weighted average calculated by Reuters.
  路透（Reuters）计算的加权平均值显示，6月至7月，政府跟踪的70个大中城市的新房均价环比下降0.9%，为三次连续下跌中的最大降幅。
• 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。