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kirn

/kurn; Scots kirn/US // kɜrn; Scots kɪrn //

麒麟,麒麟阁,麒麟区,麒麟座

Definitions

  1. 1
    • : to churn.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a churn.

Examples

  • In Lost in the Meritocracy, Kirn charts how the economics of privilege taunt him at every turn in Princeton.

  • Walter Kirn dismisses critics of this year's campaign for failing to discern the distinction between "theater" and "drama."

  • But the buzzed-about musical is only part of the country's "Mormon moment," writes Walter Kirn in Newsweek.

  • Walter Kirn, author of Up in the Air, hailed Bad Dog as "the most touching, original buddy story I've come across in ages."

  • Kirn is a graduate of Princeton University and attended Oxford on a scholarship from the Keasby Foundation.

  • "Lang straes are nae motes," quo' the wife when she haul'd the cat out o' the kirn.

  • Ye ser'd me as the wife did the cat—coost me into the kirn, and syne harl'd me out again.

  • Muriate of soda also, according to Kirn, may be used as a glass flux with advantage.

  • Kirn is understood to have enjoyed his instructor's aid in completing the statues in the Tyrol.

  • Nae man can seek his marrow i' the kirn sae weel as him that has been in't himsel.