| 词汇 | dickens |
| 释义 | dickens noun[ plural ] old-fashionedinformaluk /ˈdɪk.ɪnz/ us /ˈdɪk.ɪnz/ the dickens used in questions to express anger or surprise: （用于问句中表示气恼或惊异）究竟，到底 What the dickens are you doing with that paint?你拿着那油漆到底在干什么？ Linguistics: question words & expressions amirite devil extent how about...?idiom how, what, why, etc. on earth...idiom in God's/heaven's nameidiom question tag trick what the blazes...?idiom what's something in aid of?idiom what's that (all) about (then)?idiom what's the score?idiom what/where/how/why the devilidiom when whenever where wherefore which why world You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Expressions of anger Examples of dickensdickens Dickens treats them as he almost always treats governmental machinery - as so much red-tape. Dickens presents a pseudo-aristocratic register in the noun phrases "familiar denomination," "antlered herd" and "shady precincts," with their connotations of hunting and hereditary lineage. Dickens attempts to set up a being devoid of the romanticized national culture. Dickens himself was not unaware of his hypocrisy in the matter. Dickens later performed magic privately for friends and family (p. 131). 12. Dickens, it appeared, was more interested in causing trouble and enhancing his own prominence than in engaging in a discussion of the evidence. Dickens could not shake his own conviction that the factory system possessed a mysterious and unfathomable interiority. Dickens's allusions to the legend are often facetious, as we shall see. Dickens's genius is especially suited to the delineation of city life. Dickens's charge against professionalism is, from this perspective, an attempt to reject the modern process of mechanical alienation of humanity. Dickens's limitation was to end by rehearsing some of liberalism's most entrenched and selfjustifying mythologies. Dickens's novel hit as a result of his determination, planning, luck, and chance - it was the right novel at the right time. Dickens too, like that creatively wicked woman, prepares a kind of potion for his audience: a strong mixture of genres. Dickens creates in the child a symbol of humanity that has lived without the sweet influence of human kindness. Dickens pokes dark fun in this section of the novel at the manifold forms of human weakness, greed, and cruelty. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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