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tellingly

/tel-ing/US // ˈtɛl ɪŋ //UK // (ˈtɛlɪŋ) //

明显地,说来也是,可见,说得通

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having force or effect; effective; striking: a telling blow.
    • : revealing; indicative of much otherwise unnoticed: a telling analysis of motivation in business.

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Examples

  • “If I didn’t tell those incompetent officers that I was a LSU football player there’s no telling if I would’ve been here to tell the story!”

  • In one telling, Bourbaki was a response to the loss of a generation of mathematicians to World War I, after which the group’s founders wanted to find a way to preserve what math knowledge remained in Europe.

  • In their telling, the smaller mine was merely a temporary step to improve their chances of getting a permit.

  • “Real leadership, he shows, requires clear communication, compassion for others, and a commitment to truth-telling — no matter how frightening the facts may be,” one bit of advertising for the book reads.

  • In some ways, the senator still proved herself up to the task, producing some of the most telling moments of Barrett’s hearing.

  • Tellingly, but not coincidentally, the greatest expansion of Medicaid has occurred in Deep Blue America.

  • Tellingly, Rieux finds common ground with every character except the priest.

  • Three days after, she retweeted a tellingly simple sentence: “Family is hard.”

  • Perhaps tellingly (because many Iranians are thought to favor an opening) the poll never happened.

  • Tellingly, both still trail the haul stacked up by The LEGO Movie back in February.

  • These are tellingly related in that classic volume, "Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada."

  • Moreover, since food could be a vehicle for fantasy, even more tellingly it could provide an outlet for self-expression.

  • He had enabled Job to answer tellingly, brilliantly, these three wise fools who poured out their platitudes.

  • Here is where the influence of every fair-minded woman and patriotic man can be tellingly exerted.

  • But Gilian, as he went, busied himself on how he should convey most tellingly the story he brought down the glen.