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单词 to speak worlds
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to speak (also tell) worlds
P31. to speak (also tell) worlds: = to speak volumes at volume n. 3b.
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1828 Baroness Bunsen Let. 6 Feb. in A. J. C. Hare Life & Lett. Baroness Bunsen (1879) I. viii. 301 The very fact of writing..tells worlds as to the feelings of tenderness towards you that occupied him.
1879 Times 13 Jan. 10/1 Not a hostile shot had been fired at the little column the whole way going and returning, which speaks worlds for the compactness with which the troops marched.
1934 Amer. Speech 9 210/2 To him who can interpret, it tells worlds.
1969 J. Fowles French Lieutenant's Woman (1977) xiv. 93 It was very brief, but it spoke worlds; two strangers had recognized they shared a common enemy.
2001 M. Yalom Hist. of Wife ii. 64 The salutation of her first letter speaks worlds about the difference in their stations.
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