gley
/gley/US // gleɪ //UK // (ɡleɪ) //
格利,格莱,格雷,格力
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Geology.
- : a mottled soil in which iron compounds have been oxidized and reduced by intermittent water saturation.
Examples
The wifes assistants, if she has any, are unspeakably in the rough, and little children make all her schemes gang a-gley.
But "the best-laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft a-gley."
Camus and Gley,60 with crude preparations, had previously obtained a similar result.
But, "the best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft a-gley."
The best-laid plans of politicians, however, (p. 189) gang aft a-gley.
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