| 单词 | the story goes |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe story goes P3. the story goes: it is told, reported, or rumoured. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > rumour > it is rumoured [phrase] the story goes1618 1618 E. Parr Plaine Expos. Epist. St. Paul to Romans (viii. 9) 45 A Certaine Yong man (as the story goes) hauing long liued in Lust and whorish company, trauelled, and was conuerted. a1670 S. Collins Present State Russia (1671) 41 But as the story goes, she fail'd of her promise. 1745 W. Harris in Priv. Lett. Ld. Malmesbury (1870) I. 4 Now the story goes that he [sc. the young Pretender] is in the Highlands. 1787 F. Grose Local Prov. in Provinc. Gloss. sig. Rvijv Some Wiltshire rusticks, as the story goes, seeing the figure of the moon in a pond, attempted to rake it out. 1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers II. xi. 165 It seems, that you've shot once too often, for the story goes that you've killed a buck. 1898 J. K. Fowler Rec. Old Times 114 The story goes that the following colloquy took place. 1916 Princeton Alumni Weekly 19 Apr. 650/3 So the story went; I will not vouch for its truth. 1966 P. Young Ernest Hemingway (rev. ed.) iii. 80 F. Scott Fitzgerald put him up to this ridiculing of Sherwood Anderson, or so the story goes. 2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 28 Oct. d6/2 Imperial stout was brewed especially, the story goes, to appeal to Russian royalty. < as lemmas |
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