英语词汇“from mouth to mouth”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

i. from mouth to mouth: from one speaker to another; (also) speaking in turn or in succession.

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c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 2076 Thus north and south Wente every tydyng fro mouth to mouth.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan Rev. & Concl. 395 Such Opinions as are taken onely upon Credit of Antiquity, are..but Words that passe (like gaping) from mouth to mouth.

1727–41 E. Chambers Cycl. at Pass-parole A command given in the head of an army, and thence communicated to the rear, by passing it from mouth to mouth.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxx. 292 The stories they invent..and bandy from mouth to mouth!

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess Prol. 10 We..often told a tale from mouth to mouth As here at Christmas.

1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel xii. 116 There he stood..surrounded by a crowd of brainless, empty-headed young fops, who were even now repeating from mouth to mouth..a doggerel couplet which he had just given forth.

1993 M. Atwood Robber Bride lvi. 457 The story of Zenia is insubstantial, ownerless, a rumour only, drifting from mouth to mouth and changing as it goes.

单词	from mouth to mouth
释义	> as lemmas from mouth to mouth i. from mouth to mouth: from one speaker to another; (also) speaking in turn or in succession. ΚΠ c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 2076 Thus north and south Wente every tydyng fro mouth to mouth. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan Rev. & Concl. 395 Such Opinions as are taken onely upon Credit of Antiquity, are..but Words that passe (like gaping) from mouth to mouth. 1727–41 E. Chambers Cycl. at Pass-parole A command given in the head of an army, and thence communicated to the rear, by passing it from mouth to mouth. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxx. 292 The stories they invent..and bandy from mouth to mouth! 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess Prol. 10 We..often told a tale from mouth to mouth As here at Christmas. 1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel xii. 116 There he stood..surrounded by a crowd of brainless, empty-headed young fops, who were even now repeating from mouth to mouth..a doggerel couplet which he had just given forth. 1993 M. Atwood Robber Bride lvi. 457 The story of Zenia is insubstantial, ownerless, a rumour only, drifting from mouth to mouth and changing as it goes. extracted from mouthn. < as lemmas
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