Last-ditch?effort
Welcome?to?English?in?a?Minute!!?
When?you?listen?to?American?English,?you?might?hear?this:?Last-ditch?effort.?
Let’s?find?out?what?it?means.?Listen.
-Woman:?Did?you?watch?that?basketball?game?last?
night?
-Man:?Yeah.?That?shot?at?the?end?of?the?game?was?a?
real?last-ditch?effort?to?try?and?win.?But?it’s?hard?to?make?the?
basket?from?that?far?away!
-Woman:?Too?bad?he?didn’t?make?it.?He?could’ve?
won?the?game?for?the?team.
Alast?ditch?effort?is?a?final?attempt?to?succeed?at?
something.?It’s?a?difficult?thing?to?do.?It?may?or?may?
not?work.?In?our?example,?the?basketball?player’s?last-ditch?effort?to?make?a?basket?did?not?work,?and?his?
team?lost?the?game.?(Boo~~~)
And?that’s?English?in?a?Minute!?