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单词 dickens
释义
dickens
noun[plural]
old-fashionedinformal
uk
/ˈdɪk.ɪnz/us
/ˈdɪk.ɪnz/
the dickens
used inquestionstoexpressangerorsurprise:
（用于问句中表示气恼或惊异）究竟，到底
What the dickens are you doing with thatpaint?你拿着那油漆到底在干什么？
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(Definition ofdickensfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdickens

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Dickens, too, was quick to exploit the possibility of a mass readership.
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Dickenstreats them as he almost always treats governmental machinery - as so much red-tape.
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Dickenspresents a pseudo-aristocratic register in the noun phrases "familiar denomination," "antlered herd" and "shady precincts," with their connotations of hunting and hereditary lineage.
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Dickensattempts to set up a being devoid of the romanticized national culture.
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Dickenshimself was not unaware of his hypocrisy in the matter.
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Dickenslater performed magic privately for friends and family (p. 131). 12.
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Dickens, it appeared, was more interested in causing trouble and enhancing his own prominence than in engaging in a discussion of the evidence.
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Dickenscould not shake his own conviction that the factory system possessed a mysterious and unfathomable interiority.
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Dickens's allusions to the legend are often facetious, as we shall see.
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Dickens's genius is especially suited to the delineation of city life.
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Dickens's charge against professionalism is, from this perspective, an attempt to reject the modern process of mechanical alienation of humanity.
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Dickens's limitation was to end by rehearsing some of liberalism's most entrenched and selfjustifying mythologies.
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Dickens's novel hit as a result of his determination, planning, luck, and chance - it was the right novel at the right time.
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Dickenstoo, like that creatively wicked woman, prepares a kind of potion for his audience: a strong mixture of genres.
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Dickenscreates in the child a symbol of humanity that has lived without the sweet influence of human kindness.
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