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单词 false reporter
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false reporter
a. A person who gives or brings back an account of an event, situation, or fact. Also with modifying adjective indicating the nature of the account given, esp. in false reporter. Now rare, merging into sense 4a.
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1400 in F. C. Hingeston Royal & Hist. Lett. Reign Henry IV (1860) I. 37 (MED) Thu hast hadde fals messageres and fals reportoures of us touchyng this matere.
1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 63 b That the reporter with more ease maie remember what he hath to saie.
1599 Lyfe Sir T. More (1950) ii. vii. 122 The ouer hastie reporter of this blessed newes repaires with speed to Sir Thomas.
1686 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 191 These people..were the chief reporters that the universities were all papists.
1726 G. Shelvocke tr. Imperial Comm. in Voy. round World Pref. p. ix The malice and dishonest ways that are conceal'd in the breast of the reporter.
1767 T. Hull Perplexities iii. 37 I will undergo any censure, rather than be the reporter of my own disgrace.
1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. II. 18 The reporters of this [mission] appear to be peculiarly imaginative.
1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 707 The reporter..saw shells of a species of oyster in the collections which was referred to as the ‘Portuguese’ oyster.
a1931 E. I. Fripp Shakespeare, Man & Artist (1938) I. §57. 374 Towards the end of supper some provocative remarks by Carew Raleigh—‘loose speeches’, Ironside (our reporter) informs us..—led to theology.
1994 Phoenix 48 2 Emlyn-Jones sees ‘unintended irony’ in Alkinoos' distinction between true and false reporters.
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