| 单词 | relate |
| 释义 | re·late I. transitive verb 1. a. < tradition relates that he once rode horseback all the way to Washington — American Guide Series: North Carolina > b. archaic 2. < seeks to relate poverty and crime > < relate the flow of individual consciousness to large political and social contours — Warren Beck > < utterly unable to relate these two events > intransitive verb 1. < a will upon approval relates back to the date of testator's death > 2. obsolete < I might relate of thousands — John Milton > 3. < public acts that relate to crime prevention > < most of the lecture related to the causes of common ailments > 4. of a person < a boy with a long history of emotional maladjustment and inability to relate well to people — Edwin Powers & Helen Witmer > Synonyms: < related how it screamed, how it followed him in the brush, how he took to his boat, how its eyes gleamed from the shore — John Burroughs > rehearse usually suggests a repetition, a summary, a retold account, or a going over as in one's mind < these defects arise out of the difficulties which have been rehearsed in these opening pages — Orient Book World > < in the interval … I rehearsed a great many ways of meeting him — Mary Austin > recite and the more common recount imply a particularity, often enumeration, of detail, recount often implying a retelling < would be asked to fill out a questionnaire reciting what the condition of the lot was, the view of the lot, the orientation of the lot, the size of their family, their needs, what they wanted to achieve — J.W.Rouse > < a review that merely recited the contents of a book — Raymond Walters b.1912 > < often recounts the conversations with which they filled the long, hot days of driving — L.P.Smith > < recounted the story he had heard from the soldier — Hanama Tasaki > narrate suggests a chronological account often with the use of devices of literary narration as plot or movement toward a climax < this is not the place to narrate the achievements of the Canadian forces in that tremendous struggle — B.K.Sandwell > < it narrates the story of the shepherd Aminta and his love for the shepherdess Silvia — R.A.Hall b.1911 > describe emphasizes details which provide a picture or a representation to other than visual senses < bitter sea and glowing light, bright clear air, dry as dry, — that describes the place — Richard Jefferies > < a woman to be described as stout or thin, as jolly or crabbed, but always mature — Joseph Conrad > < the water, rich in iron and sulphur, is described as similar to that of the Vichy springs in France — American Guide Series: Minnesota > state suggests definiteness of detail and economy of presentation < state the case rather than render an opinion > < state facts, then explain them > report implies a recounting, especially factual, for the information of others, as the readers of a newspaper < the human tedium which the skilled novelist suggests without reporting in grim detail — Time > < newspapers are already reporting the ravages of dysentery — Justina Hill > < similar practices … are reported from other parts of the world — J.G.Frazer > Synonym: see in addition join. II. |
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