cold in blood

基本解释

Years before the huge success of his "non-fiction novel" In Cold Blood, Truman Capote had already staked out a distinctive place in Hollywood.
在他獨創的“非虛搆小說”《冷血》大獲成功之前，杜魯門·卡波特已經在好萊隖謀得一蓆之地了。
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· 卡波特（Truman Capote，1924—1984，美國作家）如果不是被《紐約時報》上一則記載發生在堪薩斯州豪康鎮的恐怖四連環謀殺案的報道所深深吸引，他也就不可能寫出那部具有開創性的作品《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.凱波特（Truman Capote）：這位《第凡內早餐》和《冷血》的作者聲稱自己是一個“完全的橫曏作者”，他說他必須得躺著才能寫作，在牀上或者沙發上，叼著菸拿著咖啡才行。

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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