English Dictionary

forlorn hope

IPA（発音記号）

/fəˌlɔːn ˈhəʊp/

名詞

古語 廃用 広義

A small troop of soldiers picked to make an advance attack, or the first attack; a storming party.

日本語の意味

先鋒部隊 - 敵陣へ先行し攻撃を仕掛けるために選ばれた少数の兵士からなる部隊 / 第一突入隊 - 初攻撃として前方に突進する部隊 / 先遣攻撃部隊 - 危険を承知で最初に敵へ攻め込む小規模な兵士集団

The general ordered the forlorn hope to storm the enemy's outer walls at dawn.

将軍は夜明けに敵の外壁を攻略するため、最初の攻撃を行うために選ばれた少数の兵士からなる先遣隊に突撃を命じた。

意味（1）

A small troop of soldiers picked to make an advance attack, or the first attack; a storming party.

Ped[ro]. Stand to your guard ſir, all the devils extant / Are broke upon us, like a cloud of thunder; / There are more women, marching hitherward, / In reſcue of my Miſtris, then ere turn’d taile / At Sturbridge Faire; and I believe, as fiery. / Jaq[ues]. The forlorn-hope’s led by a tanners wife, / I know her by her hide; a deſperate woman: …

意味（2）

(obsolete) In the plural form forlorn hopes: the soldiers collectively making up such a troop; (by extension) a group of reckless adventurers.

[T]o make this realme a praye to al venturers, al ſpoylers, all ſnaphanſes, all forlornehopes, all cormerauntes, all reuenours of the worlde, that wyll inuade this realme, is to ſaye, thou poſſeſſyoner of any landes of this realme, of what degree ſo euer thou be, fro the higheſt to the loweſt, ſhalte be ſlayne and deſtroyed, and thy landes taken frome the by thoſe that wyl haue al for them ſelfes.

意味（3）

(by extension) Any dangerous or hopeless venture.

From the tete-a-tete with Mr. Thomas Tough, ſhe goes to her deſk again, and begins to write With what appetite ſhe may, in the forlorn hope of procuring from her bookſeller part of the money ſhe has been compelled to promiſe to the ſaid Thomas's peremptory demands, on behalf of Mr. Humphrey Hotgooſe.

forlorn hopes （ plural ）