dark horse

英 [dɑːk hɔːs]

美 [dɑːrk hɔːrs]

n.  黑马(最近刚取得或将要取得成功的新人)

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 黑马（最近刚取得或将要取得成功的新人)
  If you describe someone as adark horse, you mean that people know very little about them, although they may have recently had success or may be about to have success.
  1. Until recently A. S. Byatt was a dark horse, known only by those steeped in literature.
     一直到前不久，A.S.拜厄特都还是只为潜心研究文学的人所知晓的一匹黑马。

英英释义

noun

• a racehorse about which little is known
• a political candidate who is not well known but could win unexpectedly

双语例句

• Until recently A. S. Byatt was a dark horse, known only by those steeped in literature.
  一直到前不久，A.S.拜厄特都还是只为潜心研究文学的人所知晓的一匹黑马。
• I have confidence in him. I know he will be a dark horse in the contest.
  （我对他有信心。我知道他在这次的比赛中将是一匹黑马。）
• Our girls 'football team was a dark horse in the last League Match.
  在上次联赛中我们的女子足球对爆了冷门。
• Jim is a dark horse in the final.
  吉姆是决赛中的冷门。
• A dark horse candidate gets elected in the election.
  一匹黑马在选举中当选了。
• I'm going to vote for him even though he's a dark horse.
  尽管他是一匹“黑马”，我准备投他的票。
• And a "dark horse" the only possibility," in different regions and different types of "sentence.
  和“黑马”唯一的可能性，“在不同的地区，”不同类型的句子。
• The men's team of Portugal have showed once again that they might really be a dark horse.
  葡萄牙男队再次证明了他们可能真是黑马。
• I think Thailand were the "Dark Horse" of this year's World Grand Prix preliminaries.
  我觉得泰国是前几轮比赛的黑马。
• This election has two dark horse candidates in it.
  这次选举出现了两匹黑马。