| 单词 | in retort |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin retort a. The action or practice of replying in a sharp or incisive manner; the making of a retort (sense 2a). Frequently in in retort. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [noun] > a sharp answer, retort > act of giving retort1611 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. xii. 576/1 Hee afterward added the French Motte..honi soit qvi mal y pense,..in retort or checke of his Courtiers sinister suspition. 1659 T. Pecke Parnassi Puerperium 142 In retort, His wife made Answer. 1793 J. Boswell Principal Corrections Life Johnson 29/1 Johnson's dexterity in retort..was very remarkable. 1808 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 19 518 Dr. Kentish..has laid himself very open to animadversion and retort from me. 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxiii. 233 Mrs. Mac Stinger in retort, looked at her all over. 1888 H. James Aspern Papers vi. 70 ‘Well then, go with him as a cicerone!’ said Miss Bordereau with an effort of something like cruelty in her implacable power of retort. 1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xiv. 185 ‘And you’, she cried in retort, ‘why do you always take your soul in your mouth?’ 1958 ‘S. Miles’ Lettice Delmer 12 The weather is a topic fraught with risk, And any less impersonal approach..may evoke A ‘Nosey Parker’, snuffled in retort. 1996 Éire—Ireland Spring 52 A reprise of this mutually embittering pattern of English vilification and Irish nationalist retort occurred in the days of Fenianism in the 1860s. < as lemmas |
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