untold
形容词 adj.
英 /ʌnˈtəʊld/
美 /ʌnˈtoʊld/|/anˈtəʉld/
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Not told; not related; not revealed; secret.
— As Royal Engineers General Mungo Melvin, who has been helping with the draft, put it: "This is the last untold story of the Normandy Invasion."
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Not numbered or counted.
— Huge swaths of Port-au-Prince lay in ruins, and thousands of people were feared dead in the rubble.
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Not able to be counted, measured, told, expressed in words, or described; extremely large in scale, number, quantity, suffering, damage, etc.; uncountable, unmeasurable, immeasurable, indescribable, inexpressible.
— The South propose to found a Government on servile labor, not as it originally was an accident and an incident, but as the degrading and disgraceful foundation of a Government, and to such a Government as this the Chicago platform offer an armistice, and ask the American men to beg to it for peace. He closed with an appeal to all -- to those at the loom and at the plow, in the army and in the navy, in the workshop and in the counting room to spurn forever from their recognition and their confidence the base men who would not only degrade and disgrace the party they pretend to represent, but would also bring untold disgrace and dishonor upon our country and our flag.
词源
From Old English unteald (“not counted or reckoned”), from tellan (“count, relate, tell”).
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