hang-over

基本解釋

The licensing laws are a hang-over from war time.
執(zhí)照法是戰(zhàn)時(shí)遺留下來(lái)。
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Hang-over wishes – parents' own unmet childhood wishes
遙不可及的期望——父母自己未能滿足的童年愿望
Jim: Are you serious? His family has a bad health history. Was it a hang-over?
不是吧。他的家族健康史很不好。是不是你喝多了？

Determined men, they say, will try to dig under it, or hang-glide over it, or lob home-made mortar bombs at targets on the other side.
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If someone wakes up with a hangover, they feel sick and have a headache because they drank a lot of alcohol the night before.
Something that is a hangover from the past is an idea or way of behaving which people used to have in the past but which people no longer generally have.