at last

释义

1. 終於

   idiomatic

   Now that the dog has stopped barking, perhaps we can at last get some rest.

   既然那條狗不吠了，大概我們終於能休息一會兒了。

   After three hundred years had passed, at last the vampire's soul was free.

   三百年過後，吸血鬼的靈魂終於得以重獲自由。

2. 最終，最後

   idiomatic

   No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.

   1897年12月 (標示為1898年)，温斯顿·丘吉尔，第IV章，收錄於The Celebrity: An Episode，紐約：The Macmillan Company；倫敦：麥米倫出版公司，→OCLC，46頁：

   She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.

   1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 6, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

   After all their troubles, at last they lived happily ever after.

   在經歷一波三折後，他們最終幸福快樂地生活下去。

   After exhausting all possibilities, Holmes was at last satisfied the problem was unsolvable.

   在用盡一切可能性後，福爾摩斯最終確信這個問題是無法解決的。