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ˌdark ˈhorse noun [countable] 1 someone who is not well known, and who surprises people by winning a competition “黑马”，出人意料的获胜者 In the 1955 golf championship, dark horse Jack Fleck defeated Ben Hogan. 在1955年的高尔夫球锦标赛上，“黑马” 杰克·弗莱克击败了本·霍根。2 British English someone who does not tell people much about themselves, but who has surprising qualities or abilities 深藏不露的人 She’s a dark horse. I didn’t know she’d written a novel. 她可真是深藏不露啊，我不知道她还写过一部小说。Examples from the Corpusdark horse• Patterson, winner of the Euro 250 race at Mondello Park, could be the dark horse in these races.• Beware the ventriloquist, the dark horse, whose thrown voice juggles the truth.• And then there was the dark horse in the field.ˌdark ˈhorse nounChineseSyllable not well is and who known, someone Corpus |