When they chose him, they scraped the bottom of the barrel . 当初录用他时,他就是被别人选剩下来的。
scraping the bottom of the barrel, huh ?-yes, sir 使出最后一招了,哈?-是,长官
-scraping the bottom of the barrel, huh ?-yes, sir -使出最后一招了,哈?-是,长官
If you go late in the afternoon after work, you probably can only scrape the bottom of the barrel 要到下午上完班再去,那你可能就只能从卖剩下来的东西里去挑了。”
Everyone else was off sick so we had to give the job to ted ? that's really scraping the bottom of the barrel 其他人都病假了,因此我们只得将此工作交给特德去做那真是使用了最后的一招了。
But the war lasted so long they had to scrape the bottom of the barrel and take married men and older men with all sorts of health problems 但是,战争拖得那麽久,他们不得不迁就地把那些结过婚的男人和那些有各种病的年纪大一些的男子徵兵入伍。”