• The worst of Friday's bad weather was avoided and only a slight dusting of snow arrived.

    BBC: Orwell Bridge, Ipswich

  • Oklahoma City received a dusting of snow from a large storm system that has been moving eastward through the nation's midsection this week.

    NPR: Medical Copter Crashes In Okla., Kills 2, Hurts 1

  • The startling sight of the submerged caldera, almost encircled by sheer lava-layered cliffs and topped by a dusting of towns, should not be missed.

    BBC: Lonely Planet's top European seaside escapes

  • Temperatures hover around 10 degrees centigrade during winter days, although if you are lucky, experiencing the Coliseum with a dusting of snow is magical.

    BBC: Cruise ports of call: The Mediterranean for couples

  • The valley seemed barren now, he said, but in the spring, after a dusting of rain, it would be bright with cactus blossoms and yellow creosote.

    NEWYORKER: The Martian Chroniclers

  • That's when you notice the gleam of black ice under the thin dusting of snow, mocking the idea of changing direction with anything like the control of a car or a pair of skis.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • We discuss the cauliflower panna cotta with sea urchin, over a pillow of lemon gelee, topped with a flaky dusting of parmesan or braised veal parcels (like wee pasta purses plump with veal) charred corn, veal jus and basil.

    FORBES: Fine Dining At New York City's Ai Fiori

  • Though metropolises like New York may be used to the white stuff, London tends to get little more than a dusting of snow on most winters, which made the 10.0 inches or so of snowfall across the capital all the more startling on Monday.

    FORBES: Market Scan

  • From tiny leptanilline ants that look like a dusting of pepper to Australia's 5cm (2-inch) bulldog ants, the weight of the Formicidae family is equal to that of the world's population of humans and accounts for 10% of the biomass of all the creatures on the planet.

    ECONOMIST: Lessons from ants

  • It'd be easy to lay the blame for these software quirks on its dusting of a UX, but it's more likely that the company simply neglected to fully optimize its Tegra 2 core for this skinned OS. It's not as if sleeker, more responsive and critically praised slates aren't within reach.

    ENGADGET: Acer Iconia Tab A200 review

  • "It is case of dusting ourselves down over the next couple of days, " said Martin Corry, who captained England in the absence of the suspended Phil Vickery.

    BBC: Easter calls for calm after loss

  • While they still go through the familiar childhood transitions, the process of dusting off the past and reinventing oneself is a much more complicated process.

    FORBES: On The Net, Junior High Never Ends

  • That's 50, 000 Filipinos literally dusting the seats of power.

    CNN: UNLEASHING MAID POWER

  • She was intrigued to discover that maids in Italy spent a great deal of time dusting ceilings.

    ECONOMIST: Domestic labour

  • "We are definitely dusting off a lot of the high-tax-rate strategies that have fallen into disuse, " says Isdale.

    FORBES: Sidestepping Taxes

  • When he displays a bit too much expertise dusting off a pair of thieves, a detective (Takeshi Kaneshiro) starts poking around.

    WSJ: Hollywood's New Kick: Why Everybody Is Kung Fu Fighting

  • Well-meaning activists are dusting off their old strategies of research, regulation, and litigation to use against Big Food.

    FORBES: How Everybody Can Win the War Against Big Food

  • Wollheim describes her extraordinary system of cleaning the house room by room daily, moving all the furniture to the center of the room, then dusting, sweeping and vacuuming.

    FORBES: A Truly Rare Book

  • Currently, the brand is pursuing an ambitious expansion plan, venturing into new categories, including cosmetics and childrenswear, and dusting off older ones, such as fragrance, all of which will be produced in-house.

    WSJ: Oscar de la Renta's Next Big Act

  • So civil servants have been dusting off their manuals on what to do in case of a hung parliament, and the Lib Dems elaborately refuse to set out the terms on which they would co-operate with either main party in a formal coalition or an informal alliance.

    ECONOMIST: A briefing on the British election

  • The erosive effects of our maturation create us, sloughing and shedding, dusting and polishing as we grow.

    BBC: Missing pieces in Utah

  • Rather than dusting or other chemical techniques, this team has developed a means of detecting fingerprints using an electrostatic charge.

    FORBES: Can Forensic Scientists Tell How Old A Fingerprint Is?

  • After the 2008 bailout, the biggest banks spent the last year dusting themselves off, shoring up their capital and finding new areas of growth.

    FORBES: Unintended Consequence Of FinReg: Banks Look Abroad

  • Delta Air Lines was founded in the city of Macon, Georgia (originally as a crop-dusting company called Huff Daland Dusters) and later moved its headquarters about 85 miles north to Atlanta in 1941 (after running its first passenger flights under the name Delta Air Service in 1929).

    BBC: Why is Atlanta the world��s busiest airport?

  • Others say that producers are dusting off the classics and readying them for colour releases after the success of many remixed old Bollywood songs.

    BBC: NEWS | Technology | Bollywood classics go colour

  • Weiss is dusting off evidence in the region known as the Fertile Crescent, including much of modern-day Iraq and Syria, indicating that a human revolution in irrigated agriculture occurred after an extended drought and cold spell.

    CNN: Past may hold clues to climate's future

  • Since household dust is often where many of the toxins that enter our home end up, do your dusting with a damp cloth that actually collects and removes dust rather than stir it back into the air.

    FORBES: 10 Easy Ways To Celebrate Earth Day

  • The fine, fragrant talc dusting on the dresser, the brush webbed in silver hair, the fifty-year collection of black handbags stuffed in the top of the closet- it was all too much, too much.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'The Garden Angel'

  • Antitrust experts weren't surprised by Monday's news that with an initial review of conduct by large U.S. telecom companies, the Justice Department had started dusting off Section 2.

    WSJ: Sherman Stirs: U.S. Revives Section 2 of the Antitrust Act

  • Brown -- who is fond of saying there are more smart people in the world than effective ones -- is dusting it off from a report filed a few years back by A.T.

    FORBES: A shock to the system

$firstVoiceSent
- 来自原声例句
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定
小调查
请问您想要如何调整此模块?

感谢您的反馈,我们会尽快进行适当修改!
进来说说原因吧 确定