英语词汇“to grow in the telling”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P1. to grow (also lose nothing, etc.) in the telling: (of a story) to become embellished in the course of (esp. repeated) narration.

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

to grow (also lose nothing, etc.) in the telling1654

1654 W. Jenkyn Expos. Jude: 2nd Pt. xxiii. 672 As reports lose nothing in the telling, so sinne loseth nothing in the imitating.

1713 R. Bentley Remarks Disc. Free-thinking 84 The true Fact being no more than this,..the Story grew in the Telling.

1798 J. Carr tr. Lucian Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 384 The poor old man.., being well acquainted with almost all the persons of consequence in the city, went about from one to another, declaring what great news his servants had brought, and losing nothing in the telling.

1855 E. D. E. N. Southworth Missing Bride i. iii. 57 I thought them [sc. tales] the exaggerations of terror, and knew how such stories grow in the telling.

1870 Brit. Q. Rev. 51 216 It is enough to say, that their intrinsic horrors lose nothing in the telling.

1914 E. R. Burroughs Tarzan of Apes vi. 68 The story of the thunder-stick having lost nothing in the telling during these ten years.

1953 T. W. Manson Servant-Messiah ii. 40 I am inclined to think that the story had often been retold, and had perhaps gained in the telling.

2009 K. McKenzie Swindler's Progress vi. 260 He gave details, that had clearly grown in the telling, of Dow's arrest in Scotland.

单词	to grow in the telling
释义	> as lemmas to grow (also lose nothing, etc.) in the telling P1. to grow (also lose nothing, etc.) in the telling: (of a story) to become embellished in the course of (esp. repeated) narration. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > tell a story [verb (intransitive)] > become embellished in telling to grow (also lose nothing, etc.) in the telling1654 1654 W. Jenkyn Expos. Jude: 2nd Pt. xxiii. 672 As reports lose nothing in the telling, so sinne loseth nothing in the imitating. 1713 R. Bentley Remarks Disc. Free-thinking 84 The true Fact being no more than this,..the Story grew in the Telling. 1798 J. Carr tr. Lucian Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 384 The poor old man.., being well acquainted with almost all the persons of consequence in the city, went about from one to another, declaring what great news his servants had brought, and losing nothing in the telling. 1855 E. D. E. N. Southworth Missing Bride i. iii. 57 I thought them [sc. tales] the exaggerations of terror, and knew how such stories grow in the telling. 1870 Brit. Q. Rev. 51 216 It is enough to say, that their intrinsic horrors lose nothing in the telling. 1914 E. R. Burroughs Tarzan of Apes vi. 68 The story of the thunder-stick having lost nothing in the telling during these ten years. 1953 T. W. Manson Servant-Messiah ii. 40 I am inclined to think that the story had often been retold, and had perhaps gained in the telling. 2009 K. McKenzie Swindler's Progress vi. 260 He gave details, that had clearly grown in the telling, of Dow's arrest in Scotland. extracted from tellingn. < as lemmas
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