| 单词 | bunkum |
| 例句 | What isn’t so easy now is to find reliable information on special diets in the sea of half-truths and bunkum. Why we fell for clean eating 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z He’s delivered what Vladimir Nabokov said a biographer should: “plain facts, no symbol-searching, no jumping at attractive but preposterous conclusions, no Marxist bunkum, no Freudian rot.” Review: Harry Crews’s Sense of Menace in Writing and in Life 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z One person’s road to the transcendent is another’s dusty dogma or New Age bunkum. White Light: Is It Driven by the Soul or by Sales? 2010-11-22T22:47:00Z When she decides global warming is bunkum, they give her an environment supplement to edit. Guardian Angel: My Story, My Britain by Melanie Phillips – review 2013-05-17T06:32:01Z But in reality, some of what we think we know is bunkum and myth, quite often spread by the artist himself, who was famous for hiding behind a smoke screen of partial-truths and outright fibs. Think You Know Andy Warhol? Here Are Five Truths That May Surprise 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Charney insists this is all bunkum and was just an excuse for the board to take the company from him and make money for themselves. American Apparel founder Dov Charney: ‘Sleeping with people you work with is unavoidable’ 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z Given his genius for bunkum, hokum, hooey, hoopla and ballyhoo, “I think we can call Barnum the Shakespeare of advertising,” Professor Hoh said. ‘Circus and the City’ at Bard Graduate Center Galleries 2012-09-20T22:40:07Z Or in his own words - spat out in a Yorkshire growl - "bunkum and balderdash". Obituary: Sir Bernard Ingham 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z I highly doubt Trump believed the bunkum he was peddling. Column: Will Donald Trump go to prison for asking a Georgia official to 'find' him votes? 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z While we support the role of local prosecutors in pursuing criminal cases, Schmitt’s excuse is bunkum. Editorial Roundup: Missouri 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z But he dismissed as “utter bunkum” the former prime ministers’ worry that the Irish peace could unravel. Fear in Northern Ireland, as Boris Johnson threatens the E.U. over Brexit 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Buried as it was within the usual blather, bluster and bunkum of President Trump’s daily coronoavirus briefings, Trump’s attack over the weekend on the National Institutes of Health went largely unnoticed. Column: With attack on NIH, Trump steps up his assault on coronavirus science 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Not to put too fine a point on it, but it’s utter bunkum. The dark side of tech: why the Guardian asks tough questions about Silicon Valley 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z “What the prosecution said is absolute bunkum,” he tells me in Oakwood prison. ‘It was morally wrong’: the plot to abandon a man 5,000 miles from home 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z “To say that this is going to affect the national scenario is absolutely bunkum,” he said in a television interview. ‘A major embarrassment’: Indian voters sour on Modi’s party in state polls 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Almost no records survived, though, so the history of the Pony Express is littered with impostors, inaccuracies, and plain bunkum. Why the Short-Lived Pony Express Still Fascinates Us 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z But this mercantilist logic has been known to be bunkum for centuries. Donald Trump imposes levies on metal imports 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z She may even declare the story “sexist”, a charge she also lobbed at CNN anchor Anderson Cooper last week when he rolled his eyes at some irrelevant bunkum. Kellyanne Conway is a collaborator in the US’s disgrace. Feminists must criticise her actions | Lindy West 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Well, that all changed back in the 1960s when the absurdly named “liberals” and “progressives” finally realized that the electorate would never buy their crazy authoritarian bunkum. Neil Gorsuch, corpse flower and swamp flies 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z As a rule, “A Dog’s Purpose” is hokey but harmless bunkum. ‘A Dog’s Purpose’: Heart-tugging hokum, at the end of a leash 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Yet the blithe premise of Mr Cameron’s decision to call a referendum—that the vote would “clear the air” in the Conservative Party—was always bunkum. The Cameron legacy 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Wisconsin Republicans, similarly, always looked a tad more conservative and well-educated than Mr Trump would have wanted; his blend of nativist bile and egotistical bunkum go down best with the lightly educated, unideological and aggrieved. Donald downed? 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z To ask why the U.S. is in Syria is to brush aside all the customary bunkum about Washington’s humane outrage over the Assad regime’s brutalities. Thomas Friedman, read your Chomsky: The New York Times gets Putin/Obama all wrong, again 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Others saw that as bunkum, interpreting the new rules as a U-turn that provided belated recognition that the rules were unfair and unworkable in their existing form. Financial fair play: how can Manchester City still spend £130m in one window? | Owen Gibson 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z And given that this argument is simply bunkum then the conclusion must be that the fast food franchises can’t raise wages to $15 without firing lots of people. Truly Terrible Research In Increasing The Minimum Wage To $15 An Hour 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z And this is why we should pay attention to all the bunkum. Lee Kuan Yew is finally dead — and America’s elites are eulogizing a tyrant and psychological monster 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Sycophants are full of bunkum and quite frankly dangerous for all concerned and possibly disastrous for business. Power, Hubris and Sycophants 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z But the buffs want people to believe the CIA had agents who were obsessed with Oswald, and that, he said, is bunkum. The Kennedy Wars 2013-11-05T11:05:25Z In the piece, Specter finds Oz both saving lives and promoting bunkum. Dr. Oz And Mr. Hyde: What Medicine Should Learn From Mehmet 2013-01-29T13:09:23Z Dr. Nurse hiked his eyebrows and shrugged: “We can’t sit by without exposing bunkum.” Royal Society Holds Firm Amid Political Challenges to Science 2012-09-03T19:06:06Z He was very drunk as he stood on the bar opposite me declaiming all this bunkum. Pictures of Canadian Life A Record of Actual Experiences 2012-02-14T03:00:28.520Z He became the voice of the British Empire, and the man who had always ridiculed Americans for bunkum oratory, out-screamed us all. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z I can tell you the rumor is full of bilge, bunkum and hogwash. Marion Barry says Redskins will rise like Jesus 2011-11-21T17:19:50Z Sir Joseph's heart was black, his law bunkum, and he had only got where he was by self-advertisement and picking the brains of men a hundred times fitter for heaven than himself.... A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z It is all very well to talk bunkum on the platform, but the wire-pullers want cash for themselves and to work with. Crying for the Light, Vol. 2 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.327Z My clients, Whistle & Sharp, are bunkum yet—allers stand up to the rack at the end of an execution. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z Every fresh speech of Gladstone gives me a fresh seizure, and his last 'bunkum' at Aberdeen has cost me a pint of colchicum. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z All that chat you read about the "wonderful fatalism" of the British soldier is so much bunkum. The Secret Battle 2011-02-06T03:00:59.983Z One person’s road to the transcendent, it’s already clear, is another’s dusty dogma or New Age bunkum. ArtsBeat: White Light Festival: An Act of Testimony 2010-11-19T14:32:00Z “These are options used in the most serious crimes possible — murder and terrorism and suchlike — and the suggestion that this is unusual in some way is just bunkum.” Sweden Issues Warrant for WikiLeaks Founder 2010-11-19T07:13:00Z Rudd, who faces a general election later this year, had rejected the miners' claims that they would be driven out of Australia as "balderdash" and "bunkum". Xstrata halts mining work in protest at Australian supertax 2010-06-03T12:08:00Z It is pure bunkum and totally unintelligible by normal people ... General election 2010 - live blog 2010-05-09T08:01:00Z "Travel, don't travel, go by coach, go by plane – but it's all bunkum," he reckoned. Stoke City 2-0 Hull City | Premier League match report 2010-04-05T06:00:00Z Anti-book.—As you surmise, "knowing the authority," the slang of the sporting paper in question regarding the proposed encounter between Mr. Staunton and the young American is "bunkum." The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion You are getting a great girl now; May you prosper, and keep out of row; Shun bunkum and bawl, All that's shoddy and small, For you're getting a great girl now! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93. September 17, 1887 The language was, to these bewildered ears, wild advertisement, gas, bunkum, blow, anything you please beyond the bounds of common sense. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel “Then all that talk of yours about getting me out of danger was bunkum?” Jacob's Ladder It must not be supposed, however, that this was all bunkum to Mr. Spokesly. Command Whereby I am at liberty to conclude that there is bunkum in the air. An Ocean Tramp It's all bunkum, this talk about their 'innate purity.' Changing Winds A Novel The report is a fit pendant to his bulletins; is excellent for bunkum, and to make other people justly laugh at us. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 We are aware that bunkum speakers, at your public assemblies, denounce the slaveholder as a thief, and his appropriation of the fruits of the labor of his slaves, as robbery. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject I think we understand one another now, and that you see I didn’t put up any bunkum when I telled you that I was boss of this show. Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop Then after a pause, "Of course, that's a bit o' bunkum to keep us goin';" but his manner showed he was proud to repeat it nevertheless. A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition To be infused, even by bunkum and banter, with the idea of killing, is a sad overthrow of sane balance. Desert Dust It's for them that all these atrocities are invented—most of them bunkum. The Hero You think it's all bunkum that I'm fresh out of Germany, but it isn't. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel "Me no hurt white folks; me bunkum Indian." Captain Horace "Your knowledge of children is all bunkum," he began. A Dominie in Doubt He sympathized with it in principle; but its inevitable accessories—the bloodshed, the bustle, and above all, perhaps, the bunkum which accompanied it—were to him absolutely hateful.... The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886 “How much of that is honest pluck, old chap, and how much bunkum?” said Emson, speaking very seriously. Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure A grain—requiring to be picked out with a pin and microscope—of truth, with a bushel of bunkum or cant. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce The old fellow grumbled excessively when I told him to throw them overboard, and then somewhat annoyed me by saying that all the talk about them being unsafe was bunkum. John Corwell, Sailor And Miner; and, Poisonous Fish 1901 Buncombe, more usually bunkum, is the name of a county in North Carolina. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) So when, in that raucous voice of his, he said, "I love the working man," I answered from below with a cry of "Bunkum, doctor, bunkum." Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile That was what he’d call bunkum, and we call bounce, squire. Old Gold The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig We try and have a good time of it, and leave it to the politicians and skallywags to do the speechifying and bunkum! Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes “All bunkum and wind,” said he, pitching them into a corner. Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 It merely means that the kind of photography I must name "Fifth Avenue" art, is a conspicuous species of artistic bunkum, and must be recognized as such. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets I say," said the doctor, "that's all bunkum about this girl being wanted as a witness. The Daffodil Mystery The right pocket will be the receptacle for 'business' telegrams, the left for 'bunkum.' On the Heels of De Wet You speak slick and straight to the p’int, without any bunkum or blarney, like some of them that come over here. Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes Well, if our friends the police hadn't been so willing to swallow the obvious, they would have seen that my tale was all bunkum. The Lost Valley Another word describing a certain kind of speaking, and which also comes from the name of a place, is bunkum. Stories That Words Tell Us The favourite 'bunkum' is about 'baring the Christian negro's throat to the Ashanti knife.' To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative It will suffice to state that ninety-seven were relegated to the "bunkum" pocket, and seven retained as conveying intelligent orders worthy of consideration. On the Heels of De Wet To her the conventions behind which society shields itself, its shams and its bunkum, were sacred. In the Roaring Fifties He carries his politics in his pocket, or what the penny papers tell him are his pockets; or, if he rises above selfish considerations he is taken in by the bunkum of his self-styled friends. Town Life in Australia When a person tells a story which we feel sure is not true, or tells a long tale to excuse himself from doing something, we often say it is all "bunkum." Stories That Words Tell Us "Finns, they're witches," said Murphy, rubbing his hairy chin, "An' some counts witchcraft bunkum, an' some a deadly sin, But—there ain't no harm as I see in standing well with a Finn." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-25 It is superfluous to mention that the whole of the messages sent by the local intelligence departments and by the De Wet expert were dismissed as "bunkum," often without perusal. On the Heels of De Wet "There hadn't been one so near for years, and Nick said he thought it was bunkum." The Keeper of the Door No need for snivelling bunkum; I abhor it; But does fraternity shape itself thus? Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 12, 1892 And so the expression bunkum came into use. Stories That Words Tell Us "It may be bunkum, but if it takes away his mind from his stomach let him go on," Curtis interposed. The Sorcery Club I'm quite aware that you think it all the most utter bunkum; but, you see, I know it's true. The Necromancers Not so bad, though, as a Frenchman I once met, who firmly believed the Yankees lived on a soup made of bunkum and soft-sawder. Willis the Pilot That may be bunkum, or it may be God's truth—I don't know. The Red Redmaynes They're afraid he may do something involving the estate or develop homicidal tendencies, and they talk of possible suicide—you remember his father's death—but I say that's all bunkum. John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman I'm Toffy, you know, and no flies, CHARLIE; swim with the Swells, and all that, But I'm blowed if this bunkum don't make me inclined to turn Radical rat. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 15, 1891 Her tears, her air of frankness, her tender memories: all bunkum! The Teeth of the Tiger Have you not head enough to see that that is all bunkum? Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People You have talked a lot of bunkum, all mixed up with most terrific cant. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 20, 1890 Now, Burns, be advised; that is bunkum—you know it. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 13, 1890 That fifty dollars being put on for anybody else was bunkum. Thoroughbreds If any one were to ask him how people are to live within their means when they've not got any, he would reply with the word "bunkum" and clinch the argument with a grunt. War-time Silhouettes At some seminary or other a master wrote "bunkum" on an essay, and the student couldn't make the letters out—thought it was a Latin word "luckum." Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series You know quite as well as I do that the German scare is all bunkum, and you only hammer it in either to amuse yourself or because you are of a sensational turn of mind. The Double Traitor Their stories of the trouble taken to avoid military contact with holy places and sites were all bunkum and eyewash. How Jerusalem Was Won Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine Though Montgomery wrote bunkum like the common politician of that and many a later age, he was really a brave soldier. The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton "I believe it's all bunkum," said Acton, as they strolled back towards the house. The Triple Alliance Its trials and triumphs The jolly subs look across the table and wink, for they know that's all bunkum. Nature and Human Nature All bunkum, of course, but I can assure you that every servant and caretaker we've had there has given notice within a month. The Great Impersonation I wonder if there isn't a lot of bunkum in higher education? Parnassus on Wheels On that autumn evening, as he walked homeward, Dion knew the bunkum that is given out to the world as truth, knew that brave men have souls undreamed of in newspaper offices. In the Wilderness A mere tenant knows that it is bunkum when he says "Our Country." Three Acres and Liberty I know its bunkum as well as you do, but don't bother me. Nature and Human Nature "Ah, there's a lot of bunkum talked about life," returned Tangye dryly, and settled his glasses on his nose. Australia Felix "It's all bunkum if you ask me," said her uncle. The Captives Then Fullalove, who had stood by grinning, offered to make a bunkum rudder, provided the carpenter and mates were put under his orders. Hard Cash Small holdings, back to the land—ah! philanthropic bunkum. Howards End Our people talk a great deal of nonsense about emancipation, but they know it's all bunkum, and it serves to palmeteer on, and makes a pretty party catch-word. Nature and Human Nature Small holdings, back to the land--ah!� philanthropic bunkum.� Howards End During his first drunken bout he had flung it in her face that the form they had gone through was mere bunkum. The Fawn Gloves It sounds all right, but it's bunkum all the same. The Malefactor |
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