英语词汇“spin a yarn”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. to spin a yarn (figurative, originally Nautical slang), to tell a story (usually a long one); also, ‘to pitch a tale’. Hence yarn = a (long) story or tale: sometimes implying one of a marvellous or incredible kind; also, a mere tale. colloquial.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > tell a story [verb (intransitive)]

to tell one's taleOE

narrate1795

to spin a yarn1819

yarn1859

to spin a twist1867

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [noun] > long

Iliad1609

to spin a yarn1819

saga1935

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) Yarning or spinning a yarn, signifying to relate their various adventures, exploits, and escapes to each other.

1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful I. ix. 155 Come, spin us a good yarn, father.

1834 F. Marryat Pacha II. vi. 113 ‘You must tell lies, and you will have gold.’ ‘Tell lies! that is, spin a yarn; well, I can do that.’

1837–42 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) II. vi. 97 Like uncle Parker,..I am a spinner of long yarns.

1888 Poor Nellie 162 Catch them spinning any of their yarns to me.

1897 H. Caine in Humanitarian XI. 234 What I mean is that without motive a story in not a novel, but only a yarn.

1903 Dublin Rev. July 131 All further developments of these traditions were mere ‘yarns’.

单词	spin a yarn
释义	> as lemmas to spin a yarn to spin street-thread, etc.: see street n. and adj. to spin a yarn (to tell a story): see yarn n.extracted from spinv. to spin a yarn a. to spin a yarn (figurative, originally Nautical slang), to tell a story (usually a long one); also, ‘to pitch a tale’. Hence yarn = a (long) story or tale: sometimes implying one of a marvellous or incredible kind; also, a mere tale. colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > tell a story [verb (intransitive)] to tell one's taleOE narrate1795 to spin a yarn1819 yarn1859 to spin a twist1867 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [noun] > long Iliad1609 to spin a yarn1819 saga1935 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) Yarning or spinning a yarn, signifying to relate their various adventures, exploits, and escapes to each other. 1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful I. ix. 155 Come, spin us a good yarn, father. 1834 F. Marryat Pacha II. vi. 113 ‘You must tell lies, and you will have gold.’ ‘Tell lies! that is, spin a yarn; well, I can do that.’ 1837–42 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) II. vi. 97 Like uncle Parker,..I am a spinner of long yarns. 1888 Poor Nellie 162 Catch them spinning any of their yarns to me. 1897 H. Caine in Humanitarian XI. 234 What I mean is that without motive a story in not a novel, but only a yarn. 1903 Dublin Rev. July 131 All further developments of these traditions were mere ‘yarns’. extracted from yarnn. < as lemmas
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