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twice-told

/twahys-tohld/US // ˈtwaɪsˈtoʊld //

说了两遍,说了两次的,说了两次,说了两遍的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having been told before; related two times.

Examples

  • “We all shook hands and my client told me to leave,” he said.

  • Police officials told the AP that they came out with guns blazing.

  • Yves Albarello, MP of Seine-et-Marne, said the gunmen told police they were ready to “die as martyrs.”

  • I remember H. Jon Benjamin told me it was a way-too-late apology for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

  • “We talked about the science the whole time the other day,” Krauss told The Daily Beast in a phone interview.

  • The blood that accused his friend in his heart, rushed to his face, when he repeated what had been told him.

  • Without preface, he abruptly asked, what had been told him of the Duke of Wharton's behaviour the preceding night.

  • We had six field-pieces, but we only took four, harnessed wit twice the usual number of horses.

  • Another crash, which nearly shut up his spine like a telescope, told him that there were no wings.

  • But if what I told him were true, he was still at a loss how a kingdom could run out of its estate like a private person.