英语词汇diamonds of the dustheap的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	diamonds of the dustheap
词源	diamonds of the dustheap. Virginia Woolf (1882–1940) ap- parently coined this phrase. After reading her previous year’s diary she wrote: “I . . . am much struck by the rather haphazard gallop at which it swings along. . . . Still, if it were not written rather faster than the fastest typewriting, if I stopped and took thought, it would never be written at all. The advantage of the method is that it sweeps up accidentally severed stray matters which I should exclude if I hesitated, but which are the dia- monds of the dustheap.”
随便看	ivy league i want you iwo jima i would like my roses to see you i wouldn’t know him from adam-s off ox i wouldn’t touch it with an 11-foot pole iww ixion ixion-s wheel ixnay ixtacihuatl izvestia i’d rather dine with jack ketch i’d rather not go there i’d sooner sleep in the pasture and pick corn out of horsedroppings i’d sooner vote for the devil i’ll be there with bells on i’ll drink all the blood that is spilled between north and south i’ll gladly trade 11 years of ‘then’ for seven years of ‘now’ i’ll have a steak and the man on the left i’ll take my davy of it i’ll tell you what i’m gonna do i’m a cranky old yank in a clanky old tank on the streets of yokahama with my honolulu mama doin’ those beat-o flat-on-my-seat-o hirohito blues i’m a curly-tailed wolf with a pink ass and this is my night to howl i’m all right jack

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