| 单词 | chain letter |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschain letter chain letter n. a letter written with an invitation to the recipient to pass it on to another (or copies of it to others), the process being repeated in a continuous chain until a certain total is reached. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > letter intended for many recipients fire briefa1643 circular letter1659 circulatory letter1668 circular1818 omnibus letter1861 round robin1871 chain letter1906 form letter1909 1906 Daily Chron. 27 July 6/2 In 1896 Miss Audrey Griffin, of Hurstville, New South Wales initiated a ‘chain letter’ with the object of obtaining 1,000,000 used postage stamps. 1928 Publishers' Weekly 10 Nov. 1982 The chain store idea and the chain letter are here being combined. 1940 C. McCullers Heart is Lonely Hunter ii. xiii. 299 Think about chain letters. If one person sends a letter to ten people and then each of the ten people send letters to ten more—you get it? 1966 S. Marcus Other Victorians ii. 35 Half the legends..can be traced, like the links of some bizarre chain letter, to their original source in these volumes. < as lemmas |
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