0 to describe how something happened, or to tell a story:
He recounted his adventures since he had left home.
[ + question word ] He was fond of recounting how he had played professional football when he was 19.
1 to count something again
2 another count, especially of the number of votes in an election:
to demand a recount
3 to describe the particular events of an experience, or to tell a story:
4 a second or another count, esp. of the number of votes in an election:
Farmanfarmaian then recounts that in 1964, a young man dressed in black had come to see him and seek his assistance.
Such depositions are thus seen as ' psychic documents which recount particular predicaments ' (p. 201).
Sometimes, and such moments are often recounted as memorable events, they combine two or more knowns into a hitherto unknown.
They appeared quite relaxed on the videotapes while they described their classroom and recounted the film.
Furthermore, as inherently un-theatrical acts of recounting which still never lack in performativity, narratives also mark the threshold between showing and telling.
The nature of a public narrative is to record and recount shared memory and so to reinforce a predominant perception of an environment.
The scenes were held together by a narrator recounting the events.
Remarks of this sort also appear in advice books and books that recount histories of support groups.
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描述, 講述, 敍述…
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relatar, narrar, volver a contar…
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~を物語る, ~の一部始終を話す, ~を数え直す…
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