她担心自己可能因为没早点提交诗而错过了机会。

她担心自己可能因为没早点提交诗而错过了机会。

She worried that she might have missed the boat by not submitting her poems earlier.

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She worried that she might have missed the boat by not submitting her poems earlier.

missed 是动词 miss 的过去分词形式,miss 的意思是"错过、遗漏"。 the 是定冠词,在这里特指某个特定的"机会"。 boat 本义是"船",在俚语中常用来比喻"机会"或"机遇"。 missed the boat 是一个固定短语,字面意思是"错过了那艘船",实际含义是"错失良机、错过机会"。

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