2015年10月23日 星期五

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“They were gathered in a warren of windowless basement rooms for an annual rite of passage.”


As you go deeper into the warren of rooms, you’ll discover how life and work continued underground, from top-secret conversations between Churchill and Roosevelt in the Transatlantic Telephone Room to more domestic concerns in the Churchills’ Kitchen.


Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Information from Answers.com
It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world (
Wonderland) populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays
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rabbit-hole economics

Reading the transcript of Tuesday’s Republican debate on the economy is, for anyone who has actually been following economic events these past few years, like falling down a rabbit hole. Suddenly, you find yourself in a fantasy world where nothing looks or behaves the way it does in real life.


Outdoor entrance to a rabbit burrow
Outdoor entrance to a rabbit burrow




Rabbit habitats include meadows, woods, forests, grasslands, deserts and wetlands.[1] Rabbits live in groups, and the best known species, the European rabbit, lives in underground burrows, or rabbit holes. A group of burrows is called a warren.[1]




Cadbury's Sales Melt in Kraft's Hands
Cadbury is turning out to be the laggard at Kraft Foods. Maybe Warren Buffett was right.




Ford Seeks iPhone-Like Apps for Its Cars
Ford is working to offer drivers a way to upgrade the electronics in their vehicles, much the same way they can add applications to their iPhones and BlackBerrys.




The building is three-storeys tall; on the first floor the studios and galleries are laid out along a single long hall. The arrangement grows more warrenlike—and the sense of discovery concomitantly more pleasant—as you ascend. Artists work in a variety of media, including painting, fibre, printmaking, ceramics, jewellery, stained glass and photography.


warrenlike

warren +‎ -like

[edit] Adjective

warrenlike (comparative more warrenlikesuperlative most warrenlike)
Positive
warrenlike
 




  1. Resembling a warrenmazelikelabyrinthine.

Noun

Singular
warren

Plural
warrens
warren (plural warrens)
  1. The system of burrows where rabbits live.
  2. (figuratively) A mazelike place of dark alleys etc in which it's easy to lose oneself; especially one that may be overcrowded.




laggard
n.
One that lags; a straggler.

adj.
Hanging back or falling behind; dilatory. See synonyms at slow.

laggardly lag'gard·ly adv.
laggardness lag'gard·ness n.



1 遅れる人;ぐずぐずする人, のろま.
2 (景気の)停滞分野.
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warren1

Line breaks: war¦ren
Pronunciation: /ˈwɒr(ə)n /



NOUN

(also rabbit warren)
1A network of interconnecting rabbit burrows.

1.1A densely populated or labyrinthine building or district:a warren of narrow gas-lit streets

1.2British HISTORICAL An enclosed piece of land set aside for breeding game, especially rabbits.

Origin

late Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French and Old Northern French variant of Old French garenne'game park', of Gaulish origin.

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