2008年6月3日 星期二

twists and turns in a sordid tale

Dow Chemical may have settled a legal dispute over the dismissal of two former executives, but the legal filings reveal some juicy details about the rogue buyout talks at the heart of the dispute. In this week's DealBook column in The New York Times, Andrew Ross Sorkin looks at the twists and turns in this sordid tale.



her plot's "exciting, but never terrifying, twists and turns."

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twist (CHANGE) Show phonetics
verb [T] DISAPPROVING
to change information so that it gives the message you want it to give, especially in a way that is dishonest:
This report shows how she twisted the truth to claim successes where none, in fact, existed.
You're twisting my words - that's not what I said at all.

twist Show phonetics
noun [C]
1 a change in the way in which something happens:
The story took a surprise twist today with media reports that the doctor had resigned.
The incident was the latest twist in the continuing saga of fraud and high scandal in banks and stockbroking firms.
But for a cruel twist of fate/fortune, he could now be running his own business.
There's an unexpected twist in/to the plot towards the end of the film.

2 a complicated situation or plan of action:
the twists and turns of fate
It has proved very difficult to unravel the twists and turns and contradictions of the evidence.


sordid was found in the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary at the entries listed below.

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