| 单词 | the report goes |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe report goes b. A statement commonly made or believed; a rumour. †the report goes: it is commonly said; cf. go v. 12a (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > gossiping > rumour > a piece of rumour reportc1440 voice1463 some-say1589 buzz1612 huma1616 hearsaya1642 on dit1814 legend1858 latrine1917 latrinogram1944 gist1990 c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 54 There is defendid..all fals reportes and dissymilacions. 1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton C v Many euyles comen by wycked and euyl tunges and euyl reportes. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. lij The report goth that you haue conspired to destroy the secte of Luther. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 669 The Erle of Warwike..by euill reportes, did as much as in him lay to hinder this mariage. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage vi. v. 587 Baumgarten saith that it was a common report in Cairo when he was there. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xvii. sig. Hh3 He will..perhaps Ruine himself..by spreading Reports. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 247 To try the truth of these scandalous reports that went upon the Clergy. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 24 I give Mansel credit for his invention, in propagating the report that I had a quarrel with a mountebank's merry Andrew at Gloucester. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 91 There are bad reports of him among the Dominicans, that is certain. 1886 S. F. Harrison Crowded Out! 91 The report of the Métis revolt had spread. 1917 R. C. Megrue & C. Hackett It pays to Advertise ii. 80 There was a report on the Street to-day that the Ivory Soap people were going to make a deal with Rodney. 1996 E. Morgan Coll. Poems 260 Afterwards there was a report of mass ghosts on the plains. < as lemmas |
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