| 单词 |
retell |
| 释义 |
reˈtell, v.|riː-|
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To tell again; to relate anew; also, to count again.
1593G. Harvey Pierces Super. 145 Teach Chawcer to re⁓tell a Canterbury Tale. 1604Shakes. Oth. i. iii. 372, I haue told thee often, and I re-tell thee againe, and againe, I hate the Moore. 1646Earl of Monmouth tr. Biondi's Civil Wars iv. 52 She said some things to the King which were never by him retold to any. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. ii. §6. 302 This story is retold by Buchanan, and by the other perverters of the Scottish history. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiii. III. 339 Had his life been prolonged one fortnight, his history would have been the history of Montrose retold. 1885Spectator 25 July 977/1 The stories, which are here retold so attractively.
Hence reˈtelling vbl. n.
1644Plattes in Hartlib's Leg. (1655) 296 Mony it self..is not fit for daily use in great summes, in respect of the trouble of telling and re-telling. 1883Furnivall in J. Lane's Contn. Sqr.'s T. i. vii, Lane's re-telling of the Romance of Guy of Warwick. 1887Athenæum 5 Nov. 598/1 It has lost nothing of its horror in the retelling. |
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