cold in blood

基本解釋

Years before the huge success of his "non-fiction novel" In Cold Blood, Truman Capote had already staked out a distinctive place in Hollywood.
在他獨(dú)創(chuàng)的“非虛構(gòu)小說(shuō)”《冷血》大獲成功之前，杜魯門(mén)·卡波特已經(jīng)在好萊塢謀得一席之地了。
Truman Capote's groundbreaking work In Cold Blood would have gone unwritten had he not been intrigued by The New York Times's coverage of a grisly quadruple murder in Holcomb, Kansas.
杜魯門(mén)· 卡波特（Truman Capote，1924—1984，美國(guó)作家）如果不是被《紐約時(shí)報(bào)》上一則記載發(fā)生在堪薩斯州豪康鎮(zhèn)的恐怖四連環(huán)謀殺案的報(bào)道所深深吸引，他也就不可能寫(xiě)出那部具有開(kāi)創(chuàng)性的作品《冷血》了。
The author of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and “In Cold Blood” claimed to be a “completely horizontal author.” He said he had to write lying down, in bed or on a couch, with a cigarette and coffee.
杜魯門(mén).凱波特（Truman Capote）：這位《第凡內(nèi)早餐》和《冷血》的作者聲稱(chēng)自己是一個(gè)“完全的橫向作者”，他說(shuō)他必須得躺著才能寫(xiě)作，在床上或者沙發(fā)上，叼著煙拿著咖啡才行。

Paying compensation to the relatives of the 20, 000 Polish officers and prisoners of war murdered in cold blood in 1940 is probably too much to ask.
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They are generally rounded up in tit-for-tat attacks and shot in cold blood, face down in the grass.
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