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gley

/gley/US // gleɪ //UK // (ɡleɪ) //

格利,格莱,格雷,格力

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Geology.

    • : a mottled soil in which iron compounds have been oxidized and reduced by intermittent water saturation.

Examples

  • The wifes assistants, if she has any, are unspeakably in the rough, and little children make all her schemes gang a-gley.

  • But "the best-laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft a-gley."

  • Camus and Gley,60 with crude preparations, had previously obtained a similar result.

  • But, "the best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft a-gley."

  • The best-laid plans of politicians, however, (p. 189) gang aft a-gley.

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