| 单词 | to hear say |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto hear say b. Hence, by ellipsis of such objects as people, persons, some one, before the infinitives say, speak, talk, tell, the phrases to hear say, hear tell, etc., of which some are still in dialectal or colloquial, and occasionally literary, use. Formerly also with past participle, as to hear told (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > action of informing > give information [verb (intransitive)] > be informed hear tellOE hearc1320 to hear recorda1500 understand1574 learn1756 OE Beowulf 582 No ic wiht fram þe swylcra searoniða secgan hyrde. a1123 Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1114 Ða þe munecas of Burch hit herdon sægen. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 272 Habbe ȝe iherd tell[en] of þe þreo hali men. a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) 405 He hauen herd told of ðis mere,..Half man & half fis. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 8036 King Macolom hurde telle þerof in scotlonde. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) ii. 101 Often I haf herd told of þis duke Roberd, So gode knyght..was non in alle þe werld. 1465 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 529 When Debnam herd sey how þat I began to gadyr syluyr. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 379 I her spek of that man. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) ii. 46 That ik herd neuer in romanys tell. a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. l. f. c/1 Thenne herynge tolde of the Relygyouses the gloryouse lyues of theym and many other, The sayde Onuffryen requyred of the sayde brethern that [etc.]. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxv. 225 Ye neuer herd speke of a trewere nor more noble man. 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 47v Was neuer sene nor hard tel on yet. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cxxxvii. 123 I haue heard tell of a Bishoppe of this lande, that would haue eaten fryed frogs. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 322 He was..neuer afterwards seene or heard tell of. 1640 tr. G. S. du Verdier Love & Armes Greeke Princes ii. 71 The burning Knight, of whom it may be you have heard talk. 1640 tr. G. S. du Verdier Love & Armes Greeke Princes iii. 59 Hee would by no means hear speak of sleeping till Florisbell had related [etc.]. 1658 J. Davies tr. H. D'Urfé Astrea III. 246 I have a great desire to see this man they call Lindamor, for I have heard tell such wonders of him, that I can hardly believe he is like unto other men. 1746 Duke of Perth in W. Fraser Earls of Cromartie (1876) II. 207 Before it be two days, if they do not send us other orders, they will hear tell of our having done something. 1783 S. Gunning Coombe Wood I. v. 87 'Tis a thousand pities that ever such fly-away folks should have come to Coombe Wood: 'tis enough to make one beside one's-self only to hear tell of 'em. 1816–20 J. Keats Poems 324 O mighty Princess, did you ne'er hear tell What your poor servants know but too too well? 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner vi. 94 We heared tell as he'd sold his own land. 1886 R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped ii. 9 I asked him if he had ever heard tell of a house they called the house of Shaws. 1892 G. F. X. Griffith tr. C. Fouard St. Peter 131 Even those who had heard tell of his conversion did not know [etc.]. 1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song iv. 229 Did you ever hear tell of a body of a woman that wanted a new bairn put back in her womb? 1962 ‘C. Marchant’ Heritage of Folly i. 20 She'd heard tell that some of these out-of-the-way farms could be shockers. 2004 E. Mulvihill in M. Hickey Irish Days 248 Woodford is steeped in history, as you have heard tell of it. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。