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nine days' wonder

九天的奇迹,九天奇迹,九天奇观,九天奇缘

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an event or thing that arouses considerable but short-lived interest or excitement.

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Examples

  • Really, is it any wonder that fluoride should freak people out?

  • A few days later, Bush replied, “We will uphold the law in Florida.”

  • I wonder what that lady is doing now, and if she knows what she set in motion with Archer?

  • Many of those who have become cops in New York seem to have ceased to address such minor offenses over the past few days.

  • Their immediate response tells an important truth about a police slowdown that has spread throughout New York City in recent days.

  • The "new world" was really found in the wonder-years of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

  • In nine days he returned, bringing us the thanks of congress, and fresh orders.

  • Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.

  • Fatigue he never knew, and on one occasion he was said to have spent thirteen days and nights in the saddle.

  • In the close relation and affection of these last days, the sense of alienation and antagonism faded from both their hearts.