at the eleventh hour

基本解釋

But at the eleventh hour, when I was packing to go back home, they called and said they wanted to hire me.
但是直到我在整理行裝準(zhǔn)備回家的最后一刻，他們才打電話來說想要雇用我。
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Naughty: You call in favors at the eleventh hour, stressing out vendors and well-connected friends who are very busy during the holidays.
敷衍的：你總是喜歡擅作主張的在深夜十一點給那些壓力非常大的供應(yīng)商、或在假期總是很忙的好朋友打電話。
Each time European policymakers reacted similarly: with denial and dithering, followed at the eleventh hour with a half-baked rescue plan to buy time.
歐洲的決策者們每次都做出相似的反應(yīng)：先是優(yōu)柔寡斷、否認(rèn)事實，然后在最后時刻提出一個不成熟的方案來爭取時間。

But her supervisor appointed her to the new job at the eleventh hour at the very last minute.

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