If you retell a story, you write it, tell it, or present it again, often in a different way from its original form.
例句
Lucilla often asks her sisters to retell the story...露西拉经常要姐姐们把这个故事反复讲给她听。It is a tale which has often been retold within West Indian literature.这是西印度群岛文学中广为流传的故事。
英汉词典释义
vt.
(以不同的方式或语言)复述;重述
Let me try retelling the story.让我试着复述这个故事吧。Retell the story in English.把这个故事用英语复述一遍。The students had to retell the story in their own words.学生必须用自己的话复述这个故事。The film retells the famous legend with a Marxist spin.这部电影用马克思主义的观点重述了那个著名的传说。
英英词典释义
Verb
1. render verbally, "recite a poem";
"retell a story"
2. make into fiction;
"The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel"