| 单词 | highflyer |
| 例句 | Added to the worries are revelations that some highflyers are running into trouble. Fed Hike Adds Pressure to Startup Valuations 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Earlier in 2015, assets of two onetime highflyers, social network Path and online retailer Fab, sold for a fraction of the money invested in them. High-profile busts signal caution in start-up investing 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Ironically, Julian Robertson shuttered his Tiger Management funds in March 2000, partly because they were underperforming after investing in "old-economy" stocks rather than Internet highflyers. Tiger Global leads Wall Street pack turning to Silicon Valley 2014-03-27T19:22:24Z It was afterward applied to all highflyers of the Church. Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 2011-08-06T02:00:04.917Z "I do not know what you mean by 'highflyers.'" A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z While Spain, Ireland and other former euro-zone highflyers tumble into debt crises, victims of excessive exuberance and risky policies, a steady but reformed Germany has emerged as Europe's dominant economic power. How Germany Became the China of Europe 2011-02-28T14:05:00Z "What a fascination and charm there must be about my person," he reflected, "if even this haughty highflyer succumbs to it!" The Undying Past Ah, yes, for example, they knew the highflyer of the band, and they submitted—so long as he led them to victory. Where the Pavement Ends It's sort o' risky, to let a young thing like that go off by herself among all those highflyers. Nobody She was "fixed up smart," and was "handsome's a picture;" but "he'd rather have his homely boat when it blowed than a thousand sech highflyers." Little Bobtail or The Wreck of the Penobscot. Unlike most of the regular highflyer yachts, her jib and mainsail were not unreasonably large. The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder Oh! that's above your mark, a 'highflyer' is a bloke who dresses like a clergyman, or some gentleman. Six Years in the Prisons of England With an apparatus for taking ranges he had procured the bearing of the highflyer accurately as soon as the last course was given out, perhaps half an hour before. A Victorious Union Ay," said the father, "and it's she that knows the difference between a decent sensible boy and a—gintleman—a highflyer. The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two He has lately, however, been made happy by the receipt of a fine Welsh falcon, which Master Simon terms a stately highflyer. Bracebridge Hall Mrs Boffin, as I've mentioned, is a highflyer at Fashion; at present I'm not. Our Mutual Friend There is only one good 'highflyer' in the prison. Six Years in the Prisons of England If I owned that highflyer, I should not employ her present captain to sail her for me. A Victorious Union Earthworms are a good bait for trout, but the highflyers of the gentle craft consider it infra dig to dig them. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870 There is one season of the year, however, which brings all birds in a manner to a level, and tames the pride of the loftiest highflyer; which is the season of building their nests. Bracebridge Hall And with no more ado these two highflyers ended one of those little misunderstandings petty spirits nurse into a feud. Hard Cash Now the "highflyer" I have referred to did not belong to this class, but except in his principles and habits and tastes, his education was quite equal to theirs. Six Years in the Prisons of England The "highflyer," as the second lieutenant called her every time he alluded to the blockade-runner, and the two pursuers, occupied the three angles of a triangle. A Victorious Union The highflyers have gone first, now the lower flyers; and ever the lower will go down to the crawlers. The French Revolution "I don't think that highflyer quite understands 321 the situation, Mr. Baskirk," said the commander, as he observed that she did not vary her course, and stood on to her destination, apparently with perfect confidence. A Victorious Union It had come near enough to the mark to wake up the captain of the highflyer. A Victorious Union I have already referred to him as being almost the only "highflyer" in the prison, as being the man who once obtained 150l. from a gentleman in Devonshire under false pretences. Six Years in the Prisons of England |
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