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单词 retell
释义
retell
verb[T]
uk
/ˌriːˈtel/us
/ˌriːˈtel/
past tenseretold|past participleretold
totellsomeone about something again:
重述，复述
Thestoryhas been retold manytimes.这个故事被重复讲了很多次。
Retellingtraumaticeventscanstirupnegativeemotions.重述创伤性事件会激起负面情绪。
totellsomeone ajokethat someone has told you, or torepeatajokeyou have already told before:
重复讲（从别人那里听来的）笑话
It'sbettertoproducenewmaterialthan to retelloldjokes.制作新材料总比重讲旧笑话好。
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Describing & telling stories
(Definition ofretellfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofretell

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We hear his voice, retelling the events in the light of his own imagination.
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The story was embellished and retold in plays, ballads, and chapbooks.
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Figure 2 shows the number of scenes retold in each language by gender.
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Findings revealed that the pupils produced longer narratives and retold more of the story at the second elicitation.
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Mention of its name retold the history of its production and positioned it within the ever-increasingly revealed chain of nature.
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Clearly, distance between telling and retelling in-uences each task, but this was a variable not closely examined here.
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In this study, children's speech was examined while they imitated and then retold a simple story.
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The narrative of how rent-seeking interests were defeated by state-shrinking reformers has been told and retold so many times that it has come to define the literature on free-market reforms.
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She also describes how lore surrounding the event was retold differently by male and female activists and eventually was reimagined to include all classes of women.
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In two subjects, the story was recast in the past tense when it was retold; in the other two cases, present tense was used in both versions.
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One major result of such interceptions is that they lead to discrepant versions of a story that will have to be retold in other sociolegal proceedings.
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His life was retold in numerous hagiographical and literary narratives that both reveal and conceal ssures within the ostensibly simple story of missionary labors and martyrdom.
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At the same time, this book can seem irritatingly selfregarding, as in its insistence on telling - and retelling - the publication and reception history of each essay.
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Across speakers and stories, as well as in this example, there is no simple relationship between the language in which an event happened and how that event is later retold.
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Correlations were not examined among the ten-year-olds because the number of ten-yearolds who made insertions when retelling the stories was insufficient to allow for statistical analyses.
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