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单词 to live to tell the tale
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to live to tell the tale
(a) In various phrases expressing the fact of having survived a dangerous experience and therefore being able to recount or reflect upon it (esp. in to live to tell the tale); also in extended use.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > invent, concoct [verb (transitive)]
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to tell the tale1717
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1717 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad III. xii. 86 All Troy must perish,..Nor shall a Trojan live to tell the Tale.
1790 E. Umfreville Present State Hudson's Bay 8 It is..surprizing any should be left alive to tell the tale.
1827 N.-Y. Mirror 7 July 400/2 They'll wonder—not that I have loved—But that I've lived to tell the tale.
1875 C. A. Jones Stories for Christian Year VI. 69 She must have gone down sudden like; there ain't a man left to tell the tale.
1915 E. Wharton Let. 12 Jan. (1988) 346 As she walked through the whole length & breadth of the American ambulance, & survived to tell the tale, I take the rosiest view of her health.
1991 G. Burn Alma Cogan (1992) vi. 112 Tony's dead... Ronnie's still around to tell the tale.
2006 Nuts 11 Aug. 10/2 Can you tell how it's going to end? Will everyone get blown away or will they all live to tell the tale?
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