unturned [
,ʌn'tә:nd]
a. 未翻转的
unturned[ adj ]
not turned
<adj.all>
left no stone unturned
Unturned \Un*turned"\, a. [Pref. un- + turned.]
Not turned; not revolved or reversed.
{To leave no stone unturned}, to leave nothing untried for
accomplishing one's purpose.
[He] left unturned no stone
To make my guilt appear, and hide his own. --Dryden.
- "We will leave nothing to chance and no stone unturned as we work to advance America's civil rights agenda," Bush said to applause from the audience that included many civil rights leaders.
- 'At one glance', he said, you can see the entire range of habitats in Europe, from the Arctic through to the Mediterranean'. Over the next week we left no stone unturned as we pried into the secrets of the natural history of the area.
- As a result, I am in the throes of launching an ultra-secret programme of scientific catch-up designed to catapult us once more to the forefront of nations. 'No stone am I leaving unturned.
- But in the tradition of most TV series about TV news, Saturday's script by Bryce Zabel and Brad Markowitz left no newsroom cliche unturned.
- Nature's team left no petri dish unturned in trying to find flaws in the scientist's experiments.
- The White House "will have to leave no stone unturned," said one administration official.
- "We are sort of running our own Labor Day telethon without a television station," he said. "I'm not going to leave any stone unturned.
- As you turn off the E51, or number 9 motorway, towards the centre, you will see that hardly a patch of grass has been left unturned.
- Few stones that might conceal an idea or a new programme have been left unturned.