| 单词 | to make relation |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make relation a. The action of giving an account of something; narration, report. In early use also in †to make relation: to relate, recount. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] spellc888 talec1000 telling?c1225 relationc1390 fablec1400 collationc1430 deliverance1431 narrationc1449 exposition1460 recounting1485 deducing1530 recital1565 delivery1592 reporting1603 retailing1609 recountmenta1616 narrative1748 narrating1802 deducement1820 recountal1825 retailment1832 the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > speak of or mention > refer or allude to to make relationc1390 refer1557 relate1637 c1390 in J. Slater Early Scots Texts (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Edinb.) (1952) No. 19 We haue vndirstand be the commoun voyce of the countre and all sa be relacion of sum other. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. 2254 (MED) Nectanabus..relacion Makth to the queene hou sche schal do. 1425 in C. Innes Liber Sancte Marie de Melros (1837) 545 The sayd assyse gert be sworn mony worthy diuerse men to make suthfast relacion. c1475 Advice to Lovers in J. O. Halliwell Select. Minor Poems J. Lydgate (1840) 36 A riche man who, by commoun relacioun, Had gret power and myhte. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. iii. f. 65 He knewe by relation of owre men, wherof owre swoordes were made. 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 10 He brought perfect relation how the Countrey was riche of gold and silver. 1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. xlviii. sig. Mm4v I like no Relation so well, as what mine eye telleth me. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1595 Give us if thou canst..Relation more particular and distinct. View more context for this quotation 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 1 Whatever Success they have had in the Voyage, they have had very little in the Relation. 1800 S. T. Coleridge Let. 9 Oct. (1895) I. 337 As to myself, I am doing little worth the relation. 1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighb. (1878) xii. 236 The early spring will detain me with the relation of just a single incident. 1906 J. H. Howard In Shadow of Pines i. 11 There was a break in the relation of the story. 1970 K. G. Heider Dugum Dani (2006) vi. 190 This is not the public recounting of myths or legends by wise old men but rather the dramatic relation of events and experiences. 2002 E. M. Gerli Medieval Iberia (2003) 281/2 The mentality of the bestiary..gives moral interpretation a status equal or superior to that of the relation of facts. < as lemmas |
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