单词 | junk heap |
例句 | “These junk heaps are only geared to one speed. Do you think they’re equipped with selective flexors?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Let us be dissatisfied until slums are cast into the junk heaps of history, and every family will live in a decent, sanitary home. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It’s the same instinct: rummaging in junk heaps, pawing through discards. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And when I was a Negro, the whites judged me fit for the junk heap, while the Negroes treated me with great warmth. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z My father likes to sift through street castoffs and industrial junk heaps for treasures. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Haven’t you noticed there are junk heaps everywhere? Plenty of other places we can work. And other waste mart men.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Handkerchiefs flew out like soiled white doves, worn shoes, ladies' combs, a cowbell—a junk heap. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z When Cholly was four days old, his mother wrapped him in two blankets and one newspaper and placed him on a junk heap by the railroad. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead he is making constructions, out of things he gathers from junk heaps or finds here and there. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It was wood, not even painted, old-looking, about ready for the junk heap. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Even the hapless thrift store owner who found Mazie’s diary in a junk heap adds his two cents. ‘Queen of the Bowery’ embraced roles of sinner and saint 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The second group, done at the time of the Attica prison rebellion, includes an oil study of the Statue of Liberty being hauled off to a junk heap. What to See in New York City Galleries This Week 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z An animatronic dog finds itself on the junk heap after the Chuck E. Cheese-like restaurant where it performed goes out of business. At the Super Bowl, Nostalgia’s the Only Game 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z What goes unquestioned here is context: the collision of the global-gallery universe and the street or junk heaps of other worlds. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z The marvel of Springer is how far he traveled to become the king of television’s junk heap. Perspective | Jerry Springer, TV’s master of trash, and the world he left us 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Others look as if they are one blown tire away from the junk heap. Speed at their fingertips: Remote-control racing takes off in the District 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Michelangelo’s perfectly proportioned Piazza del Campidoglio, home to Rome’s City Hall, puts you at the top of history’s most remarkable junk heap—the glorious if crumbling marble arches and columns of the Roman Forum. Brief, Breezy and Foolproof Itineraries to 6 European Cities 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z On Saturday, he pulled up on his beach cruiser towing a shopping cart that bore a bathtub he rescued from a junk heap. ”This is my Jacuzzi,” he said. Standoff beneath the 110 Freeway: Homeless man builds a compound, officials tear it down, he rebuilds 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Still, can there be too many enchanted objects, a result of what Mr. Hunt described as “the fever dream of technologists,” that may ultimately be destined for Sky Mall, or the junk heap? Putting Magic in the Mundane 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z It is his message for “rottamazione” — which translates as scrapping, and is most often used when consigning a car to the junk heap. Stirring Up Stodgy Italy With His Political Style 2012-11-24T20:32:38Z So experience indicates that it is better to throw a fairly used-up wagon on the junk heap and build a new one in its place. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z In her subsequent years of roaming through New Jersey industrial parks and junk heaps, she began to think of herself as an urban archaeologist as well as an artist. | New Jersey: Valeri Larko, Painter of Industrial Decay 2010-05-15T01:05:00Z In the first place, I don’t like some junk heap in front of my house. E. L. Doctorow: “Edgemont Drive.” 2010-04-19T04:00:00Z A mill that does not turn out lumber soon goes upon the junk heap. The Making of a Country Parish “Well, it wasn’t doing anything,” replied Berwick, grimly, “but if the engine had been started with that thing in it, it would have made a junk heap of the whole thing in about ten seconds.” Frontier Boys in the South Seas Their ignorance not only retards production and confuses administration, but constantly piles up a junk heap of broken humans and damaged machines which cost the Nation incalculably. Conservation Through Engineering Extract from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior Its rate is twenty miles an hour even though it runs into a smash the next minute and never goes anywhere again except to the junk heap. Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son He comes on like some prissy fuss-pot poet, doesn’t have it together, drives a junk heap, claims to have quit his teaching job but was probably fired. E. L. Doctorow: “Edgemont Drive.” 2010-04-19T04:00:00Z The place looked, in fact, like a junk heap. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 In one corner dismally reposed a literary junk heap—old magazines, broken-backed works of reference, novels once unanimously read but now unanimously forgotten. Counsel for the Defense Literally thousands of army trucks and official cars were passing through this station in a constant stream, either to be quickly repaired or thrown into the junk heap. The Fight for the Argonne Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man I wrote about motor cars, willow farms, celebrities, freaks of nature in the city parks, catfish and junk heaps—anything of which I could snap interesting photographs and find enough text to "carry" the picture. If You Don't Write Fiction In many of our cities, he has already been relegated to the junk heap, by the adoption of the commission form of government. The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy On the previous day the presidente had unearthed a queer little carriage out of a junk heap, and put this conveyance and a wise looking piebald pony at our disposal. A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route He made a sweeping gesture around the room that looked like a junk heap. Stand by for Mars! Now that the war is over, France is a vast junk heap of arms and equipment that cost a mint of money and the brains and lives of millions of men. The Fight for the Argonne Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man The junk heap in the corner played an important part in the movements of my gang. From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine But a school, with all its disciplinary claptrap reduced to a junk heap! Pee-Wee Harris on the Trail "Sure is a junk heap, this old block," observed Pepper, as he fumbled in the dim light with his keys. The Day of the Beast Queer, ain't it, the way we spend a million dollars or more on a thing one year, and the next want to kick it out on the junk heap? One Man in His Time A boy of seventeen, without an idea of what he intends to do in life has already turned down the lane that leads to the junk heap. The High School Boys' Training Hike The regular chain of the cycle is likewise employed, so, when buying the wheels, it is well to select one or more chains with corresponding sprockets from the junk heap. The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do The old-fashioned engine, contemptuously relegated to the frontier before going to the junk heap, was puffing at the side of the low sanded station platform. Where the Trail Divides You fellows are going the wrong way to the junk heap. Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout, or, the Speediest Car on the Road Coming up from the rear, they surprised Stanley and one other peacefully boiling coffee in a lard pail which they must have stolen in the night from the ranch junk heap behind the blacksmith shop. Good Indian By the end of World War II, our old coal oil cookstove was pretty well rusted out and was looking like a reject from a junk heap. The Life of Me; an autobiography How is I to know where all the brats offa junk heaps that witches use in their doin's gets to in the end? The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II Where masonry walls had been was a vast junk heap; where stout magazines had been bedded down in hard concrete was a crater; where strong barracks had stood was a jumbled, shuffled nothingness. Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front |
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