| 单词 | vamp up |
| 例句 | This time, it was harder to disentangle the significant talents from the mass of new names vamped up by personal websites, blogs and fanzines. Judith Mackrell on the Oxford Dictionary of Dance 2010-08-25T20:45:00Z It helps that both directors quickly perfected an elegant visual style, but neither are afraid of vamping up the fancy design or special effects where necessary. Is Christopher Nolan the new Stanley Kubrick? 2010-07-15T16:15:00Z And if "it" means vamping up the sex appeal to compensate for being out of the limelight, then Aguilera has it in bucketloads. Songs featuring Beyonc? and Bubl? 2010-05-18T14:18:00Z Bruno Mars went the other direction, vamping up a cover of Prince's Let's Go Crazy to such an extent he seemed possessed by the spirit of the Minneapolis marvel. Grammys mix hip flasks with politics - BBC News 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z "But the better to vamp up a show of reality, "The tale must be told with circumstantiality, "What vessels were conquered by Britain's bold sons, "Their quotas of men, and their number of guns. The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) 2012-01-10T03:00:15.980Z It’s the old story, sir, vamped up to get a bottle of rum; but I thought I’d better report it to you. Commodore Junk 2010-12-20T17:12:13.450Z It fell to my lot to vamp up the usual editorial cackle myself that night, but I've got to help the beauty most nights, as he doesn't like work. The Call of the Town A Tale of Literary Life Your critic states, to begin with, that I make desperate attempts to "vamp up" a moral in my story. Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" He wants to pose as a martyr, and to do so vamps up unfounded charges against the Elector of Hesse. A Defence of the Hessians This forms a curious contrast to the romantic portrait of the old man vamped up for us by Paul de Musset. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second Then, with what sarcastic irony I should condole with him over his wearisome, dull career, eternally writing home platitudes for blue-books, making Grotius into bad grammar, and vamping up old Puffendorf for popular reading. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance It consists for the most part of English words, vamped up apparently not so much for the purpose of concealment, as burlesque. A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies The soldier confessed that his profession had often served as the cloak for terrorizing the poor and vamping up worthless accusations. John the Baptist This is a poor subterfuge; could you not have vamped up something better? Rookwood I do detest these old names vamped up. Diary in America, Series One Sew vamp up the center by catching corresponding loops together. Spool Knitting If you honour my verses by setting the air to them, I will vamp up the old song, and make it English enough to be understood. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Only yesterday I saw one of our toughest ponies vamping up the aisle of Mess Hall No. 2 with his tray held over his head in the manner of a Persian slave girl. Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit All these tales about conspiracy have been vamped up since. New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why? I have known better men than you, Eusebius—excuse the comparison—vamped up and engraved upon the spur of the moment, for celebrated highwaymen or bloody murderers. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 This is the best our Shakespeare can vamp up for the birthday of the Man with whom he of all men had the most in common. A Christmas Garland Above all, both are full of blood—of things lived and seen, not vamped up from reading or day-dreaming—and yet full of dreams, day and other, and full of literature. The English Novel Your critic states, to begin with, that I make desperate attempts to ‘vamp up’ a moral in my story. Miscellanies An old square new vamped up! a fountain! an aqueduct! The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant What makes me angriest is the reasons they vamp up why we're fighting. Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract They likewise purchase cast-off female wearing-apparel, which, when vamped up and embellished, they sometimes contrive to sell as new, with no inconsiderable profit. The Zincali: an account of the gypsies of Spain A dummy doctor and a vamped up disease. Beyond the City An old square new vamped up! a fountain! an aqueduct! are these acquisitions to brag of? The American Union Speaker Meanwhile, Paris was attempting to vamp up some interest in her new King, who walked the streets with an umbrella under his arm. Lady John Russell But Holymead vamped up all sorts of surmises and suppositions for the purpose of befogging the jury and getting their minds away from the outstanding feature of the case for the prosecution. The Hampstead Mystery At the end of the Marlborough wars we suddenly vamped up a peace and, left our allies in the lurch, on account of a change in domestic politics. Through the Magic Door If he was so determined, for what earthly reason did he pass his valuable time in vamping up old plays and writing new ones? The Valet's tragedy, and other studies A lawyer, of good birth, if he wrote plays at all, would certainly not vamp up old stock pieces. The Valet's tragedy, and other studies |
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