last resort

基本解釋

By a last-resort evolutionary adaptation, female sharks, it turns out, are capable of parthenogenesis, or virgin births.
憑這招進化適應(yīng)性的殺手锏，雌性鯊魚原來可以單性生殖，或者說，以童貞女之身懷孕生產(chǎn)。
The Fed is now lender-of-last-resort not just to commercial banks but to big investment banks as well (a concession that will surely in time demand tighter regulation).
美聯(lián)儲的最后貸款人角色不再僅僅針對商業(yè)銀行，對大型投資銀行也同樣有效（當然了，作為代價，投資銀行最終得接受更嚴格的監(jiān)管）。
Over the weekend, the head of the Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann warned that such bond purchases were against the ECB's rules, and he ruled out a lender-of-last-resort role for the central bank.
周末，德國聯(lián)邦銀行總裁Jens Weidmann警告這樣購買債券違反歐洲央行的規(guī)定，他否定了央行的最后貸款人制度。

But remember that dipping into retirement accounts to pay tuition should be a last-resort option.
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Central banks have practiced this lender-of-last-resort function with reckless abandon, provoking bank failures and monetary crises galore.
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Even the cotton fields in Xinjiang—a last-resort destination of millions of poor farmers—are no longer a viable option.
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