| 单词 | hotchpotch |
| 例句 | It's a bit of hotchpotch – Drop the Dead Donkey meets Spooks and, all right then, a hint of Mad Men for the period detail, even if the period is a different one. TV review: The Hour 2011-07-19T21:10:01Z As it is, the movie is likely to be a hotchpotch of the two. Should we rise up against the Planet of the Apes prequel? 2010-06-24T16:15:00Z THE Oxford English Dictionary defines a pastiche as “a medley of various ingredients; a hotchpotch, farrago, jumble.” ?The Enchanted Island,? a Baroque Mash-Up at the Met 2011-12-22T15:38:19Z The result, despite everyone's best endeavours, was a hotchpotch, with each new attempt at restoration subtracting something from the house's aesthetic coherence. Leighton House: a private palace of art 2010-04-16T23:09:00Z The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry is chock-a-block with a hotchpotch of items, from stuffed animals to displays on the city's Home Front and examples of woven silk. The Guardian Family Friendly Museum Award 2010-04-02T23:07:00Z The Whig party was closer to a hotchpotch of self-interested and discordant MPs. Freedom fighter 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Like the text itself, this production is a hotchpotch of silliness, crude humour and sublimity. Doctor Faustus 2010-09-18T23:09:00Z It calls his comedy "effortless and utterly captivating". is clearly capable and comfortable performer but complains that it is all "a bit too hotchpotch". Edinburgh Comedy awards - Who's who? 2013-08-21T17:04:20Z Shame, then, that the film itself is such a hotchpotch of promising ideas, many of which are only partially realised on screen. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2012-08-11T23:05:22Z The only thing I'm tempted to click on is an ad for "Best of British 2012" – weirdly it's a hotchpotch of jubilee and Olympic-related stuff, and albums by British artistes. Store Wars: Play.com and WOW HD 2012-05-25T06:45:01Z Understandably, given the turmoil of the preceding years, expectation was not particularly high for the hotchpotch group of Britain's unfunded female sprinters at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow. 'What the hell do we do?' - Moscow misfits who started an era 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z Spotify has let go hundreds of staff since that time, hitting the expansive podcasting division, a hotchpotch of podcasting companies it spent more than $400m acquiring just a few years ago. Why Spotify's big bet on Meghan Markle fell flat 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Kettering General Hospital chief executive Simon Weldon said the site was a "big hotchpotch of things" and the hospital required urgent attention. Kettering hospital boss says site is not fit for care 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z But other studies point to a more complex story, in which humanity began as a hotchpotch of many different groups of ancient Africans that, together, evolved into modern-day humans. Record-Breaking Simulation Hints at How Climate Shaped Human Migration 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Ralf Rangnick's side, who have got a game in hand on the Hammers, are still a hotchpotch of a team, but they managed to beat Brentford on Wednesday which was hugely important for their season. Lawro's Premier League predictions v singer & Chelsea fan Call Me Loop 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z The book is a hotchpotch of notes, a diary-slash-scrapbook of her life and how she apparently got there. Gisele Bündchen: a model life? 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Also in this paper, former prime minister Tony Blair describes Johnson’s proposals as a “hotchpotch” that would “undermine the peace so carefully constructed” in Northern Ireland and maintained for more than two decades. Michel Barnier: blame Boris Johnson for a no-deal Brexit 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z Mr Weldon described the site as "a big hotchpotch of things, some things that are new, about 10 years old, to things that are 100 years old, and everything in between". Kettering hospital boss says site is not fit for care 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z The aim was to create extended institutional networks that might foster a new, common sense of purpose across the hotchpotch of local legal, religious and linguistic traditions. Discovery is always political 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z There are seven different types of financial support for parents facing childcare costs, which the Trust described as a "confusing hotchpotch" of measures. Toddlers' parents 'pay most for childcare' 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z A car is, in reality, a hotchpotch of different nationalities. Is it time to stop thinking of cars in terms of nationality? - BBC News 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Its representatives in the National Assembly are from a hotchpotch of 13 parties, united in their desire to defeat chavismo but often divided over the best means to do so. The coming confrontation 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z He’ll certainly meet a population which will welcome him with joyful enthusiasm; a people very much open to the spiritual dimension, albeit quite often a hotchpotch of beliefs and contradictory ideas. Why Pope Francis Is Visiting an Active War Zone in Africa 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z The biggest draw is its laser show, in which an eccentric hotchpotch of celebrities and luminaries are projected onto the mountainside. Too big to veil 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The result – a hotchpotch of suppliers with very different approaches to network analytics generally. TeradataVoice: Mix It up! The Perfect Utilities Asset Analytics Cocktail 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Britain's current railway signalling is made up of a hotchpotch of different systems, many bolted on to much older technology. Changing the signals on Britain's railways - BBC News 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z But Studio B and the hotchpotch of corridors and rooms around it are in a terrible state - flaking walls, collapsed ceilings and dead pigeons on the floor. A time capsule of the BBC at Alexandra Palace? 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z The UN response mission and the World Health Organization base many of their stats on a hotchpotch of numbers from national health ministries, aid organisations and sketchy information their own officials can correlate. Ebola crisis: WHO upbeat on targets 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z The answer: they are all part of the myriad of inspirations found on the first full day of Paris’ ready-to-wear shows and fashion’s ever-creative hotchpotch. Paris shows evoke Audrey Hepburn, Pre-Raphaelites 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z He covers his mortgage with a hotchpotch of readings, special commissions, sitting on committees, creative writing teaching, writing a column in a newspaper, and a helpful government grant. Is it possible to be a millionaire poet? 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z For his research on quantum field theory, he needed to bring together his hotchpotch of computer code and data-analysis tools. Research tools: Jump off the page 2014-03-26T18:20:39.905Z Hiring managers and other veteran interviewers say that, at such times, success depends on a hotchpotch of factors: ample advance preparation, excellent communication, deft interpersonal skills and a finely honed ability to keep calm. Interviews: En garde 2014-02-19T18:51:05.449Z Charles said this accounted for the local architectural hotchpotch that is often ridiculed. Exploring LA's forgotten stairways 2013-08-19T00:02:14Z Mr. Avramov called the government “a hotchpotch of a cabinet” and hopes that it addresses the country’s two main issues: social unrest and abuse of power by state institution seen as nonrepresentative and corrupt. Bulgarian Parliament Names Plamen Oresharski Prime Minister 2013-05-30T10:49:54Z Finally, it's a hotchpotch of female intuition, pedantry, and Sami Hyypia in the sauna. Football Weekly: United and City celebrate but Walters takes booby prize 2013-01-14T16:22:00Z At its best the procession sketched an uplifting portrait of a brilliantly hotchpotch nation desperate to unite around a a beacon of hope. Olympic torch sails to its destination 2012-07-27T17:25:38Z This hotchpotch lacks only a cannibal from Africa, who once ate a Polish missionary. Euro 2012: 'England only' zones set up amid fears for black and Asian fans 2012-06-02T22:31:36Z The province lies on the fringes of China, its population a hotchpotch of nationalities whose dietary habits are far removed from those of the Han Chinese. The Chinese who actually like cheese 2012-05-19T10:50:06Z The hotchpotch of unorganised humanity that we call Society seldom presented an uglier appearance than it did in the first decade of Victoria’s reign. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z Bacon and peas, hotchpotch of beef and veal, chicken and lamb! The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z Whole volumes of that great hotchpotch of criticism are lost in the sandbanks of my treacherous memory for ever. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z Instead we have a hotchpotch of incomplete monitoring systems and unforgivable secrecy. Diabetes drug 'victory' is really an ugly story about incompetence 2010-07-17T07:00:00Z The government is "buying outcomes" not a hotchpotch of services, says Harrison. Recruitment boss feels the benefits of getting unemployed back to work 2010-04-29T23:05:00Z Gradually, however, from this hotchpotch of types, the personality of the speaker detached itself and was able to impress Jenny's attention. Carnival But this is merely a trade jargon, a hotchpotch of Eskimo, Chukchi, Koryak, English and even Hawaiian. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" The intellectual basis had been lulled to sleep by that hotchpotch of convention and largeness that we call the Victorian Era. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study Its dogmas, if one may so speak, were a hotchpotch of fine phrases about beauty, truth, right, and the like, culled from writers of all creeds and of no creed. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 The nature of the hotchpotch will be understood from a recital of some of its contents, in their chronological order. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science To continue their experiments, they shut up in other boxes eggs, chiccory, lobsters, a hotchpotch of fish, and a soup!—and they applauded themselves like M. Appert, "on having fixed the seasons." Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life On the one hand was "official" Turkish—a clumsy hotchpotch, overloaded with flowers of rhetoric and cryptic expressions borrowed from Arabic and Persian. The New World of Islam But this list includes only a small minority of the menagerie of diverse creatures which at one time or another have contributed their quota to this truly astounding hotchpotch. The Evolution of the Dragon It was like most other American municipalities—dirty, dingy, and unattractive, a hotchpotch of buildings with no architectural unity. The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol You see nothing but a hotchpotch of strange people, struggling and striving to attain definite form. Nobody's Man This astounding hotchpotch forms an admirable example of the way in which local etymology is still generally treated in highly respectable publications. Science in Arcady "Life is a terrible hotchpotch nowadays," she admitted. The Great Prince Shan Those of the Burgundians were probably men who spoke that hotchpotch of original barbaric, Celtic and Roman words later called "Teutonic dialects," as well as Latin. Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" Capricorn seems to have prepared a hotchpotch of information of human follies, of contrasts, and of blunt stupidities of which he intended to make a very entertaining series of pages. On Something You prefer to be one of those down whose throats the hotchpotch which is being cooked will be crammed. The Home and the World I shall not pretend to disturb your understandings, which are none of the strongest, with a hotchpotch of unintelligible terms, such as Aristotle's four principles of generation, unformed matter, privation, efficient, and final causes. The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves I say, quite honestly, that I had rather have the old system of classics pure and simple, taught with relentless accuracy, than the present hotchpotch. From a College Window There was no boundary between the hotchpotch of little German-speaking territories on the East and the little Celtic territories on the West. Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" Fictitious details crowded thick and fast upon her—a regular hotchpotch; she had only to stretch out her hand and seize what she needed. The Getting of Wisdom It's the frontispiece of one of a queer old hotchpotch of pamphlets, sewn up together by some amateur enthusiast in a marbled paper cover—confessions, travels, trials and so on. The Return Don't they make a regular hotchpotch of right and wrong? An Enemy of the People Many a poisonous hotchpotch hath evolved in our cellars: many an indescribable thing hath there been done. Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none If one thinks about it, you know, looks into it and analyses all this hotchpotch, if you will allow me to call it so, it's not life but more like a fire in a theatre! The Wife, and other stories First they ate "hotchpotch," soup with the meat swimming in capital broth. The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern As old Simon said, his wife knew no rival in the art of preparing hotchpotch. The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern |
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