| 单词 | city slicker |
| 例句 | “I know city slickers when I see ’em and them thar’s two of the slickest of ’em all. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Little Willy loved to look at all the people, especially the “city slickers,” as Grandfather called them. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He pinched my cheek, and whispered, “We’ll teach these city slickers that they can’t come up here and beat our dogs.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Larks all round as the city slickers set off fire alarms, try to catch chickens and get stuck in the mud. TV highlights 04/07/2012 2012-07-03T18:59:01Z Jon and Etta Smith live out a city slicker’s dream, mostly, by building a self-sustaining house, corral and livestock feeding system on their bear- and rattlesnake-infested bison ranch in northwestern Montana. What’s on TV Thursday 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The next time these city slickers visit, you should post some rules to the ranch. Perspective | Ask Amy: Cowboy needs to wrangle human predators 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Rose, insanely optimistic and daffy, doesn't know city slicker Mark, but she says that she needs him and loves him. Eigengrau | Theatre review 2010-03-18T22:00:00Z After dinner, I lingered, chatting with the patrons and staff who, unlike the crowds at Louie Mueller, were not used to city slickers stopping by. Frugal Traveler Blog: Texas Road Trip, Part I: Barbecue, Dr Pepper and Tortilla-Tossing 2012-02-07T19:59:19Z A city slicker could make a case that Larry the Cable Guy is the longest-running piece of performance art in pop culture today. Critic’s Notebook: The Original Blue Collar Comedy Tour Stars 2013-05-17T20:33:55Z In it, Mr. Stanley, as a city slicker lost in the country, questions and gets smart answers from Carter, portraying a wisecracking local yokel: Ralph Stanley, bluegrass master, dies at 89 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z But not all of us will be city slickers. TV highlights 28/07/11 2011-07-27T20:59:01Z But I have to admit to what can be described only as a city slicker’s insecurity: What if I don’t see a single creature? Footsteps: Jewels of Olmsted?s Unspoiled Midwest 2011-09-02T18:18:14Z Following those good-hearted bumpkins to the Iowa State Fair and watching them collide with the preening city slickers from Des Moines was like watching a new nation being born. As Life Spins On, the Midway Beckons 2010-08-28T05:01:00Z James was dirty and grumpy — a city slicker trying to learn to manage all the complex human and animal needs that suddenly had become his responsibility. Spending My Tenderness on Animals 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Now even city slickers with no obvious need for immediate refrigeration are getting into Yeti, just as they embraced Timberland boots and Canada Goose jackets. Can the Yeti Unite America? 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Even city slickers don Wranglers this month when the rodeo gallops into town. Live It Up in Houston 2011-04-25T05:20:02.430Z For truly uninitiated city slickers, Urban Rangers will help set up tents, conduct s’more toasting lessons and take groups on night hikes in search of nocturnal critters. Campsites in the Heart of New York City 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z In 1971 the experimental Portable Theater produced his play “Pignight,” a jarring look at city slickers taking care of a British pig farm who run afoul of a disturbed German farmworker. Snoo Wilson, Surrealistic British Playwright, Dies at 64 2013-07-08T01:09:55Z Several additions to the D.C. menu show how Evans might be trying to appeal to us city slickers. The BBQ Joint’s red light means go 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Television and movies are littered with fish-out-of-water tales about city slickers or country yokels transplanted into an unfamiliar environment. Your move to the big city may be your last 2013-12-27T17:00:00Z One of the things that all of the bags I took out for a road test have in common is that they weren’t designed specifically with office workers and city slickers in mind. A great all-around backpack 2012-07-29T16:00:00Z For a while, Hank’s prodigal return is played for gentle, knowing laughs, as a comedy about a city slicker slumming it with the good country folk and rediscovering his roots in the process. ‘The Judge’ Stars Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Playing bumpkin-boss to the hilt, Griffith was an ideal foil for the city slicker Thomas, whose condescending attitude finally got him thrown in the clink. A few ways to enjoy and celebrate Andy Griffith 2012-07-03T20:17:11Z In fact, he goes on, the only difference between him and city slickers are suits, ties and fine shoes. In praise of ? Welcome to Lagos 2010-04-26T23:05:00Z Maybe the most massive quasars are city slickers, forming in hubs of tens or hundreds of other galaxies. Powerful black holes might grow up in bustling galactic neighborhoods 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z The city slickers fed up with rising egg prices have had questions for Samuel Dodds. Perspective | Virgin chicken wranglers, tired of pricey eggs, are snatching up birds 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z To city slickers, they might seem like the perfect places to put renewable energy — sun-swept fields and windy plains degraded by pesticide use and overgrazing, practically crying out for a second economic life. This power line could save California — and forever change the American West 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Like a vengeful villain in a Western movie, city slicker Trump targeted Cheney in the Wyoming Republican primary. The conning of the Cowboy State 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Your character’s been described simply as a “city slicker.” 'Never Have I Ever's' new heartthrob wants to subvert the 'model minority' stereotype 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Every summer, thousands of British city slickers escape to the countryside to enjoy the fairy tale-like “green and pleasant land” that poet William Blake praised in the 18th century. 'Britain is melting': The U.K. records its hottest day ever as a heat wave scorches Europe 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z Could two gay city slickers survive on a dirt road in a desert town just a few doors down from an alpaca farm? They swapped an L.A. pad for a Joshua Tree homestead — and a growing gay community 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z I’m gay, and I’m Black, and I’m a city slicker with no children. Opinion | Don’t let Mallory McMorrow fight bigotry alone 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z Cochran noted in the AP obituary for Estes, “how many city slickers from New York or Chicago can make a fortune selling phantom cow manure?” ‘One of a kind’: Former AP reporter Mike Cochran dies at 85 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Mistletoe in Montana Melissa Joan Hart stars in this holiday romance as the owner of Paradise Ranch, where city slickers go on vacation to play cowboys and cowgirls. What's on TV Friday: 'Sugar Plum Twist' Hallmark; 'The Hollywood Christmas Parade' on the CW 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z A single sentence about foreclosure sales and gun-toting protests is blown out into a scene that lets Futterman pit good old boys with rifles against city slickers in suits. 'American Rust' bears a likeness to 'Mare of Easttown' — without the sense of humor 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z When a city slicker is outfoxed by a country bumpkin, we consider it just, yet we think it unfair the other way around. Pop culture isn't biased toward 'coastal elites.' If anything, it's the reverse 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z It’s also a way for city slickers with snake phobias to confront their fears in the wild. This Urban Safari Comes With a Warning: Watch Out for Snakes 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z “I was just a city slicker,” she said. Artist preserves farmland of native Kentucky in watercolor 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z Next to the country bumpkin, the city slicker comes up short. On TV, country is the soundtrack to the American dream 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z When an actor who makes Westerns visits a Montana dude ranch, a woman realizes that he’s actually a city slicker who knows nothing about being a cowboy. TV Listings: Here are the feature and TV Films airing the week of July 28 - Aug. 3, 2019 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z The country boy in me dreamed of becoming a city slicker. Asking our readers about their hometowns brought back nostalgic memories and emotions — some bitter, some sweet 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z He meant it as a tribute to his parents, “city slickers in Chicago,” he says, who “wanted to be cowboys and cowgirls.” New in L.A. theater: ‘Bronco Billy’ rides again; Billie Holiday sings sad truths 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z The fuel rises were doubly galling for the yellow vests in their suburban and rural homes because they can’t rely on good public transport like rich city slickers do. How do you stop green taxes hurting the poor? 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z In addition to payments going to what EWG called “city slickers,” the organization found that 85 recipients got checks that went above the $125,000 federal payment limitation. Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z She knew the names of the high school ag teachers; she wasn’t a “city slicker.” Chris Curtis: the heart of the markets 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z He knows the measure is hurting his popularity in rural France, where already he's seen as the quintessential city slicker. Speed limit cut on French roads angers rural voters 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Houkal plays some with the racial and class tensions underlying the relationship between the city slickers and their rural hosts, though "Edge of Isolation" isn't really a political film. Indie horror 'Edge of Isolation' brings verve to genre 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Overnight, I went from suburbanite to city slicker. Revenge of the Suburbs 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z “People like us in smaller places and people that are in the rural communities, we’re just the same as the big city slickers,” Sullivan said of her fellow rural activists. Resistance efforts are taking root in pro-Trump country — and women are leading the charge 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z In 1943, Fortune magazine reported that the bites were considered a “rare delicacy by city slickers.” To get a little taste of Dunlap, you can't beat the Turkey Testicle Festival 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z But the finale, “Chicago,” with its city slickers on the prowl, damsels seeking dates and one wandering sailor, ends “Migration” on a note of sheer jubilation. Step Afrika! brings black migration saga to vibrant life 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z He is a consummate city slicker, a soft-handed, foul-mouthed toff who lives in a 58-story building and has been identified with New York City excess his entire life. The intolerance of the left: Trump's win as seen from Walt Disney's hometown 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z And the dusty streets of this isolated outpost may hold little appeal for Russia's city slickers. Russian free land: A brilliant bureaucratic nightmare? - BBC News 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z That wasn’t the only thing that rattled city slickers. Area near Colesburg still draw for Boy Scouts after 60 years 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z But even the happiest De Beers transplants acknowledge that Gaborone isn’t for avowed city slickers. De Beers Left London for Botswana, Transforming Lives and a Sleepy City 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z His oversized jeans and plaid shirts are more yeehaw than city slicker, so he fits right in. From Shump's hair to Tim Duncan's dad jeans: we pick the NBA's most stylish 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z “We were clueless city slickers,” said Mr. Perry, who moved to Vermont from his native England. Vacation on a Vermont Farm, a Uniquely American Tradition 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z But that’s silly; there is much more land to go before the border, a vastness unimaginable to city slickers for whom three blocks is an adventure. T.C. Boyle's Retreat Into California's Redwoods 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z “Yume-gaki,” he says, foisting the shell on two visiting city slickers. Japan fisherman in post-tsunami town sees hope in 'dream oysters' 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z The festival ropes in local ranch families as well as city slickers from hundreds of miles away seeking that Western soul expressed in poetry. Ode to the range: Cowboys take to prose to celebrate U.S. West 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z Lisa Ronchetti who runs the Dachshunds in London club and owns a dog called Milo said it was an "aloof" breed and a "very adaptable city dog" making it popular with city slickers. Find the top pooch in your postcode 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z While Pink mainly sells colourful lingerie and casualwear for young women, its rival focuses on shirts and accessories for city slickers, both male and female. Victoria's Secret's 'sexy, mass-market appeal' hurt shirt brand, court finds 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The feelings of Americans with respect to "rubes" vs. "city slickers" are vastly more complicated than they appear at first blush. New York state of mind: how American sitcoms depict US cities 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z Put away those matches, city slicker, and learn to cook outside on the open flame, right in the middle of the city. Character Study: Teaching City Dwellers How to Make It in the Wilderness 2013-12-14T01:07:34Z But if those young women were suffering from urban disconnection, then why didn’t I—a city slicker through and through—react that way as well? Empathy and Disgust Do Battle in the Brain 2013-06-15T12:15:00.290Z Didn’t I just read how hoards of city slickers were choosing childless lives, and about a book titled, What to Expect When No One’s Expecting? Screwing Ourselves to Extinction? 2013-02-28T09:45:00Z And no need for city slickers to trek to the airport: Zipcar has vehicles stashed in spots around many city and inner suburban areas. Avis' buy of tiny Zipcar could be in antitrust fast lane 2013-01-13T20:37:43Z Many in Mammoth Lakes believe their rural neighbour used the judgment to punish their perceived city slicker, dollar-counting ways. California town learns to live on less after falling off its own fiscal cliff 2012-11-21T14:49:39Z Arthur was a city slicker in a mill town, an ad man who specialized in selling liquor, with a beautiful actress wife. Essay: Art Modell and the One-Way Street Out of Cleveland 2012-09-12T15:38:45Z As Rogers was to Oklahoma, and later Herb Shriner to Indiana, so Griffith was to rural North Carolina: the country boy speaking truth to the city slickers. Andy Griffith: His Hottest Decade Was the '50s 2012-07-03T23:35:32Z The price of just about everything will surprise city slickers in this part of the country. Away Game: Alabama to Tennessee 2012-02-28T05:00:00Z One evening, on the shabby farmhouse set, Wale Ojo, who was playing the uncomfortable city slicker, positioned himself for his first scene, and Afolayan shouted, “Action!” The Making of Nigeria?s Film Industry 2012-02-23T22:43:02Z Of course, we’re a bunch of city slickers up here in New York. Gadgetwise Blog: Seven Ways to Protect Your Tech From Irene 2011-08-26T17:31:58Z But at the weekend, these city slickers return to the soil. Return to the soil 2011-08-04T00:01:05Z “It was a house for a real city slicker, and he was an outdoorsy guy,” said Ms. Coletti. The Appraisal: Running the Schools Once Had a Residential Perk 2010-11-22T17:17:00Z A city slicker who had never seen a live cow in his life? Pushbutton War I bet he'll be good to his old mother in this one, too, and get the best of the city slickers in the end. Merton of the Movies |
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