| 单词 | unkept |
| 例句 | His mother’s unkept promise was at the core of who he was. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Remembering my unkept promise, I pried its roots from the earth with desperate fingers and filled my basket, hoping that Elnora would somehow find them there. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The novel follows family members over several decades, and through a series of deaths, as the promise remains unkept. Booker winner Damon Galgut laments South Africa’s gloom 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z And much more than that, of course: It would be hard to imagine a timelier, more necessary popular entertainment in the year of Ferguson, Mo., a reminder both of progress made and promises unkept. In ‘Selma,’ King Is Just One of Many Heroes 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z And there is much that’s unsettling in this 11-minute show, including a Baby New Year Resolution Enforcer, who has shockingly little tolerance for unkept promises. ‘Toy Story’ and ‘Robot Chicken’ Spawn Holiday Specials 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Instead, it asserts girlhood as a shared space between other young women who are free to be lazy and unkept. From "Barbie Girl" to Girl Dinner and beyond: What's behind our obsession with the girl-ish label 2023-08-21T04:00:00Z He looked like he may have been out fishing & drinking all day and was unkept in his appearance. Jimmy Buffett Does Not Live the Jimmy Buffett Lifestyle 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Their antihero, Marty Byrde, meets all the criteria, and as with Walter White, his anger is fueled by a sense of unkept American promises. Review: Netflix Is in the Woods With ‘Ozark’ 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z The wilderness looks unkept and threatening, but seethes with life. Thomas Cole, American Moralist 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Brown stretches of unkept grass are now common sights in tourist areas like Stanley Park, right near the city centre, as well as Queen Elizabeth Park and Kitsilano Beach. Why Vancouver is letting go of green lawns 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z This is not due to a shortage of groundskeepers, but rather an experiment college researchers began in 2019 to see what benefits an unkept lawn could yield. Why clover lawns are a good alternative to grass 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z The promise remained unkept under former prime minister Theresa May, who held the line of "net migration down to the tens of thousands" in the Conservative Party's 2017 manifesto. Net migration: The target that won't stop moving 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Home is a promise of security; but sometimes that promise goes unkept. Review | Admiring the beauty — and beautiful politics — of the Black family home 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Scrappy and plain-talking, Meloni, 45, stands out in the clubby world of Italian politics, which is dominated by men and characterized by decades of unkept promises. Italy’s Meloni steeped herself in far-right ideology as teen 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Some were unkept or abandoned as members of Black communities died off or some moved away. Nearly ‘Erased by History’: African Americans Search for Lost Graves 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z Despite expectations that it would become a model for the rest of the country, the state has instead provided a cautionary tale of lofty intentions and unkept promises. Inside California's pot legalization failures: Corporate influence, ignored warnings 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z His list of unkept promises remains long, including action on immigration, housing costs, college debt and child care. Biden deserves praise for policy victories 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z But recently, near her “chicken coop” of a home in the church, she found a square of unkept land. Ukraine’s Herculean Task: Helping Millions Whose Homes Are in Ruins or Russia’s Hands 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z It continued with solemn reverence for the constitutional order under which the nation has persevered — for the rule of law and for oaths, both kept and unkept. Jan. 6 committee uses video, testimony to tell tale of the insurrection 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z But apathy is running high, he said, because people are tired of unkept promises from politicians. I drove all over L.A. talking to voters. They aren't happy and want change 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z Younger voters have signaled they are disappointed in unkept promises by Mr. Biden and Democrats, among them a pledge to eliminate student debt. Biden plan to cancel student debt faces hurdles with Democrats, GOP and courts 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z The national league has been bedeviled by interference from the government, allegations of corruption and unkept promises from soccer leaders. A new goal for Samuel Eto’o in saving Cameroon soccer 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z Warren said in a videotaped address she would “move on to this new chapter with no regrets, no unkept promises.” Rochester’s one-month mayor is in quarantine for COVID-19 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z The transfer called fresh attention to the Biden administration’s unkept campaign promise to eliminate the vast network of private jails that researchers say detain most immigrants facing deportation. ICE holds growing numbers of immigrants at private facilities despite Biden campaign promise to end practice 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The efforts in Japan are intended to overcome decades of unkept promises from political and business leaders to increase opportunities for Japanese women, who face some of the starkest inequality in the developed world. Few Women Ascend Japan’s Corporate Ladder. Is Change Finally Coming? 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z She said it pains her to see her mother, who used to get her hair done weekly, looking unkept, with bangs hanging in her eyes and hair down to her shoulders. Despite vaccines, nursing homes struggle with outbreaks 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z The document is both proof of the risk the family took to assist American soldiers and a reminder of a promise unkept. Refugees Who Assisted the U.S. Military Find the Door to America Slammed Shut 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z After four years, during the worst health crisis in a century, the unkept promise may be catching up to Mr. Trump. Trump’s Secret Health Plan Is a Promise Voters Have Heard Before 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z After nearly four years of unkept promises he's just now scrambling, in the last weeks of his re-election campaign, to withdraw some troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. Trump's contempt for the military reveals his fatuous, bloated ego — and could finish him off 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Residents say they have faced more than two decades of minor fixes and unkept promises of repairs to broken pipelines and above ground pumps. Senators seek EPA help to fix Metro East public health issue 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z For many, the promises of airline reservations made but unkept, cost them thousands and upended Christmas travel plans. She was ordered to repay victims she scammed as a travel agent. She then scammed new victims to pay back the old ones, prosecutors said. 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z In 1983, the party intended to reclaim control by assailing Mr. Sanders’s “unkept promises.” Bernie Sanders vs. The Machine 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z But unkept promises and scandal blunted the telegenic Liberal leader’s prospects. Canadian vote projections indicate Trudeau will lead minority government 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z “Our South Side communities, our West Side communities are littered with broken promises, unkept commitments,” Stacy Davis Gates, the vice president of the teachers’ union, said this week, alluding to Ms. Lightfoot. Chicago Teachers’ Strike Tests Mayor on the Promises She Ran On 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z I’d read that the Burmese government was building a model village on Dunse Para’s lands, which now were nothing more than unkept fields with burned stumps. The Schoolteacher and the Genocide 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z But they struggled to recall other marquee moves, pointing instead to promises unkept to repeal outright the 2010 Affordable Care Act, abortion politics and a host of immigration battles. Republicans relinquish Congress with whimper: ‘More missed opportunities than anything’ 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Citizens and educators must watch for unkept promises, the report said. Perspective | An inside look at classrooms finds ‘false promises,’ wasted time, and failure to learn 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z When it became clear this deadline would not be met, campers saw it for what they had always known: government promises made, government promises unkept. City camp is site of Native American homelessness, heroin … and hope 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z There are communities with unkept roads, narrow streets and poor signage — these aren’t all a result of Maria. After Hurricane Maria devastation, Puerto Rico rises up 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z The White House acted after an ABC News report that the private presidential promise was unkept. Trump sends cheque after family complains 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Investors started to lose patience with Tesla this week after another unkept promise. Reality Bites for Tesla Shares 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Suicide notes and survivors told of immense stress, long workdays and harsh managers who were prone to humiliate workers for mistakes, of unfair fines and unkept promises of benefits. Life and death in Apple’s forbidden city 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z Analysis / The dominant theme of President Donald Trump’s first 100 days, which include stumbles, reversals and unkept promises: Governing is much harder than campaigning. Day 100: Trump finds being a ‘game-changer’ isn’t so easy 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z “What we do is we improve a watershed especially in this community where this is really an unkept secret, a beautiful stream right in the middle of our community.” Stream cleanup improves quality of Monongahela River 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z Time to sunset Obama!He came in like roaring lion, he is going out liked a fleeced lamb.All promises made and unkept have deepened the... Congress Votes to Override Obama Veto on 9/11 Victims Bill 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z The smell of simmering homeless, unkept bro and fish from China town. ‘Like a Furnace’: New Yorkers Sweat It Out as Reports of Hot Subway Cars Rise 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z He cast Cruz's speech as an example of the Texas senator's unkept promises, and of Trump's magnanimous attitude in allowing the man Trump called "Lyin' Ted" to speak at all. Exposing the Fractures 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z He said voters are tired of unkept promises and his political movement should work to free France from the grasp of a political and intellectual minority. Emmanuel Macron Hints at Presidential Ambitions at En Marche Rally 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z They show that there are huge numbers of Americans whose voices are not being heard — voters who are tired of half-measures and unkept promises. What Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have in common 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Still, there is also popular disillusion with the unkept promises of the Paris-based elite. Eyes on the prize 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z “These are closures because of unkept promises,” said Kelly Crowe, the chief executive of the National Alliance of State Health Co-ops. Health Care Co-op Closings Narrow Consumers’ Choices 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z During its journey, the stone was at the center of a number of failed business deals, soured partnerships and unkept promises. After 6 years, ownership of massive emerald may finally be settled 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z "It's the worst unkept secret: The mission is failing," D'Souza said. UN moves closer to pulling peacekeepers from troubled Darfur 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z “It’s the worst unkept secret: The mission is failing,” D’Souza said. UN moves closer to pulling peacekeepers from troubled Darfur 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z At a time of continuing high unemployment and low growth, the Front’s deft use of the politics of victimisation, combined with widespread disillusion with traditional parties and the unkept promises of the elite, counts more. Operation detox 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Don't rely on assumptions or count unkept promises. Astrological Forecasts for 01/12/2015 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z First, Putin moved Russian troops away from the border, after numerous unkept promises to do so. Putin Plays Peacemaker, But His Act Is Getting Old 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Ideally, the current problem will be the last regarding unkept promises to veterans. Editorials from around Pennsylvania 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z In renewing his vow to close the Guantánamo prison, Mr. Obama highlighted one of his most prominent unkept promises. Pivoting From a War Footing, Obama Acts to Curtail Drones 2013-05-23T18:05:23Z Down the street, a campaign banner for his successor, Mohamed Morsi, hangs across the road, a reminder of more recent promises unkept. In Cairo Crisis, Unheard Voice From the Poor 2012-12-14T02:46:26Z It was a desolate spot, unpainted and unkept. The Mardi Gras Mystery 2012-03-24T02:00:18.017Z Among the unkept stipulations of the marriage contract was a provision for the building of a chapel for the Queen's use. Henrietta Maria 2011-12-15T03:00:14.290Z With all the instincts of the nomad—unkempt, unkept, and owning no master—their home is the street, where they are born and die, a boon and a bane to mankind. Turkey Peeps at Many Lands 2011-09-21T02:00:31.190Z For miles the streets of this large city were lined with little, antiquated, unkept homes, many of which seemed to be falling in ruin. The Demands of Rome Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church 2011-08-18T02:00:21.113Z Engagements, vital ones, through lack of reminders went unkept. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z The ring is surrounded by earthworks, now grass-grown and trodden down, unkept since the Revolutionary days, when West Point was a Gibraltar. A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism 2011-05-15T02:00:10.653Z It means facing up to hard truths and unkept promises. The foolishness of Civil War reenactors 2011-05-08T14:01:00Z The unkept natural garden of half a century ago has become a granary not only for the people of America, but for those of Asia as well. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z Moreover, the scarcity of unkept star players and the presence of teams with many cheap keepers and nearly full budgets to spend on only half the roster slots will also drive up prices. Bats: Fantasy Focus: Keeper-League Inflation 2011-03-17T10:00:18Z As the fly rumbled over the unkept streets toward the station, past the few tame shops and the dead-and-alive hotel, her color came and went in rapid fluctuations. Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir 2011-03-11T03:00:14.423Z Closing Guantanamo was a signature promise of Obama's presidency, and it is still unkept well past his original deadline of January. Military trials possible for 9/11 suspects 2010-03-05T21:38:00Z A rutty, unkept road led towards the yard fence, where it swerved around the corner and went on towards the stables. The Man from Jericho The ordinary garden forms of Raspberry also make fine groups in the unkept parts of the grounds. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens But he comes all in a moment; and in a moment—an unguarded, unkept one—we utter the hasty or exaggerated word, or think the un-Christ-like thought, or feel the un-Christ-like impatience or resentment. Kept for the Master's Use O’er sins indulged while conscience slept, O’er vows and promises unkept, And reap from years of strife— Nothing but leaves! Sowing and Reaping "Why, hello Greene, old hoss; is this you?" asked Moran, lifting the head of the unfortunate man and pushing the unkept hair back from his forehead. Snow on the Headlight A Story of the Great Burlington Strike It is an unkept, an unconscious school or gymnasium, and is entirely instinctive. Ways of Nature Yet even through this torturing thought of a promise unkept, the Hawk's thumb and forefinger moved in their slight grinding motion on the first sheet of the sheaf of papers.... The Bluff of the Hawk Whatever you did really trust Him to keep, He has kept, and the unkept things were never really entrusted. Kept for the Master's Use For my part, he keeps me here rustically At home, or, to speak more properly, stays Me here at home unkept. The Wide, Wide World Summed up in all, to make the rural schools character-builders, to rid the districts of surroundings which destroy character, such as unkept school yards, foul, nasty outhouses, poor, unfit teachers. Chapters in Rural Progress As we too climbed the steady slope to the southeast we were willing to leave the dreariness of its unkept farms and get among the woods. At Plattsburg That was it, the whole field, unkept, idle, lazying, was thoughtless of the future. Stubble If the fences are broken down, the paths are unkept, the flower-beds full of weeds, we may be pretty sure the inhabitants are idle, thriftless, perhaps intemperate. Life and Conduct An unkept path leads through the moat to a modest door. Riviera Towns Let no man reproach me again, whatever watch is unkept— I sleep because I am slain. The Years Between Nic was silent, and the horse stumbled through putting a foot into a deep rut of the unkept road. First in the Field A Story of New South Wales The Spirit grieves Over a wasted life; O’er sins indulged while conscience slept, O’er vows and promises unkept; And reaps from years of strife— Nothing but leaves! True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best Even the unkept grass in which her light feet were set was wild with white daisies. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron The little man fretted his fingers nervously through his unkept hair, and his face assumed an air of great seriousness. The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family The place was stuffy, foul-smelling, and reeked with a stale combination of tobacco and beer and patchouli, and tears, curses, fear and promises unkept. The Mintage This thrifty condition of unkept apple orchards delighted me. The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm On and on she went, until after a while the tasks she had to perform began to gain a more familiar look, and she recognized them as being unkept promises of quite a recent date. Dreamland We will live as lived our fathers, Gleaners of the gifts of nature, Hunters of the unkept cattle, Men whose women run to serve them. The Poems of Henry Van Dyke He was a restless, discontented sort of man, very slender of figure, with sharp, well-defined features, keen gray eye, and wore his dark hair long and unkept. The Von Toodleburgs Or, The History of a Very Distinguished Family It was characteristic of its proprietor—ricketty, disorderly, the yard unkept and grown over with weeds. Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent The stranger had given a blithesome promise, and anchored it with oaths; but oaths and anchors equally will drag; naught else abides on fickle earth but unkept promises of joy. The Piazza Tales They were rickety stairs, very dirty and dark, and unkept. The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town Perspective dawned—and soon I saw My houses stand against its law; And "keeping" all unkept! The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood And should any one, in any case, be content that his oath should go unkept, on a mere unsubstantial controversy as to how it shall be kept? American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) My Father, I pray that it may be mine to have the recollection of happy deeds, and not the memory of unkept promises. Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration There were thistles and tares in the unkept rose-garden, and the cottage was abandoned to a sisterhood of doves, who mourned perpetually for their lost princess. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 And in half mournful, half upbraiding host, Duties neglected—high resolves unkept— And many a heart by death or falsehood lost, In lightning current o'er my bosom swept. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 Feeble steps were heard on the stairs, and an old man, tall and frail, odorous of pipe smoke, with shaggy, unkept grey hair and a dingy beard, tobacco stained about the mouth, entered uncertainly. Youth and the Bright Medusa In the country the old Roman roads were unmended, unkept; Europe was slipping backwards into uttermost barbarism. The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History May I be reminded that, while I may save and keep the dust from things that perish, my life, though unkept and undeveloped, tells in itself the value and need of the most watchful care. Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration It was not so much the alcoholic excess that was resented, but the fact that it led to unkept linen and dirty finger nails and, by the same token, to neighborhood scorn. Broken to the Plow Or was it merely that the people, weary of empty rhetoric and unkept promises, were ripe to welcome and to follow any man whose apparent earnestness and sincerity atoned for all his lacks? The Grafters And should any one in any case be content that his oath shall go unkept on a merely unsubstantial controversy as to HOW it shall be kept? Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address The Harvester stepped aside and she passed him and crossing the rifled ginseng patch went toward a low brown farmhouse lying in an unkept garden, beside a ragged highway. The Harvester Feeble steps were heard on the stairs, and an old man, tall and frail, odorous of pipe smoke, with shaggy, unkept gray hair and a dingy beard, tobacco stained about the mouth, entered uncertainly. The Troll Garden and Selected Stories It was the only unkept spot on our land, and I always wondered why father didn't clean it out and make it look respectable. Laddie; a true blue story That unkept mound Shows where they slumber united still; Rough is their grave, but they sleep as sound Out on the range as on holy ground, Under the shadow of Kiley's Hill. The Man from Snowy River They sat on the edge of the bridge, obviously clad in a garment each, very dirty and unkept, a little boy and a girl of about seven and nine. A Girl of the Limberlost "In that old unkept cemetery south of Onabasha, where it costs no money to lay away your loved ones." The Harvester It was in a grass field, divided from the one he was walking in by a large, unkept hedge without a gap in it to let him through. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs When almost down the hill you passed a house with broken windows and unkept grass. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come The Count, attracted by their pale faces, hollow eyes and unkept beards, waited for them to cross the court. The Prince of India — Volume 02 Just a small empty house with three unkept little children racing through and around it. A Girl of the Limberlost I thought of Hamlet's soliloquy on Yorick as I stood by her unkept grave, with its headstone fallen and broken. Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian The September sun had set redly when at last he reached the outskirts of the town, opened up the wicket gate, and walked up the weedy, unkept path leading to the cottage where she lodged. The Moccasin Maker It was a beautiful unkept hedge with scarlet and purple fruit among the many-coloured fading leaves and silver-grey down of old-man's-beard. Afoot in England Then why didst thou promise her?"; and he answered, "How many a promise made is unkept of its maker! The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 But he would not turn into the unkept road that led over the moor to the house. The Sleuth of St. James's Square Besides, such features in a coast suggest a certain clean-cut character of profile,—a promise, in Japan at least, rarely unkept. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan Monsieur de Lessay used to live in the second storey of an old house in the Avenue de l'Observatoire, having a stuccoed front, ornamented with antique busts, and a large unkept garden attached to it. The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard The gorse nearly covered them; the unkept hedge let the moor in and there were no longer any paths, except one running to the boathouse. The Sleuth of St. James's Square |
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