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Holy Grail

ˌHoly ˈGrail noun
1  TRY TO DO OR GET something[singular] something that people want very much, but which is very difficult or impossible to achieve 難以實現[無法實現]的夢想
Holy Grail of
Nuclear fusion is the Holy Grail of energy production.
核聚變是能源生産方面一個遙不可及的夢想。
2. the Holy Grail the cup believed to have been used by Christ before his death 〔據信耶稣離世前使用的〕聖杯
Examples from the Corpus
Holy Grail• That was my Holy Grail, and there could be no real life for me until I found it.• A vaccine for malaria has become something of a scientific holy grail.• The plot proper, however, is the Big One - a quest for the Holy Grail.• Another generation of Labour leaders, in the 1960s, were still left to search for the Holy Grail of economic planning.• We may remember here that the Holy Grail is sometimes considered to be a stone, as well as a vessel.• Total immunity from colds once seemed to be the unattainable Holy Grail of clinical viral science.

Holy Grail

Holy Grail
n noun 
a) TRY TO DO OR GET something[singular] something that people want very much, but which is very difficult or impossible to achieve
Holy Grail of
Nuclear fusion is the Holy Grail of energy production.
b) → the Holy Grail
Examples from the Corpus
Holy Grail• That was my Holy Grail, and there could be no real life for me until I found it.• A vaccine for malaria has become something of a scientific holy grail.• The plot proper, however, is the Big One - a quest for the Holy Grail.• Another generation of Labour leaders, in the 1960s, were still left to search for the Holy Grail of economic planning.• We may remember here that the Holy Grail is sometimes considered to be a stone, as well as a vessel.• Total immunity from colds once seemed to be the unattainable Holy Grail of clinical viral science.
→ Holy Grail at Grail(1)

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