speak

A1 CET-4 Oxf 3000 高中 FREQ #472 ★★★★★

vi. 说, 说话, 演说, 发言 vt. 说, 讲, 说出

发音

UK /spiːk/
US /spik/

词形变化

speaks 复数 speaks spake spaken spakest spaketh speaked speaketh speaking speaks 三单 spoke spoken spokest spoketh speaking 现在分词 spoke 过去式 spake 过去式 spoke 过去分词 speakest spokest 过去式 speaketh 三单 spoke 复数 spoken 过去式 spoken 过去分词

别名

speake speke spick spk

教材释义与例句

动词

说话；演讲；表明；陈述

to use your voice to produce words

I was so shocked I couldn't speak.

我震惊得说不出话来。

He spoke very softly (= quietly ) .

他说话声音非常轻柔。

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.

    不可数 可数

    corporate speak; IT speak

  2. 2.

    Speech, conversation.

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    Clipping of speaker point.

    可数 非正式 不可数

    We will deduct speaks for hesitation.

  4. 4.

    a low class bar, a speakeasy.

    过时
v. A1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    To be able to communicate in a language.

    会说

    识讲

    及物

    He speaks Mandarin fluently.

  2. 2.

    To be able to communicate in a language.

    To be able to communicate in the manner of specialists in a field.

    及物 引申义
  3. 3.

    To utter.

    及物

    I was so surprised that I couldn't speak a word.

  4. 4.

    To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.

    及物
  5. 5.

    To understand (as though it were a language).

    幽默 非正式 及物

    Sorry, I don't speak idiot.

    So you can program in C. But do you speak C++?

  6. 6.

    To produce a sound; to sound.

    不及物
  7. 7.

    To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.

    讲话

    讲

    说话

    说

    讲嘢

    出声

    话

    不及物

    I was so surprised I couldn't speak.

    You're speaking too fast.

  8. 8.

    To have a conversation.

    谈话

    会话

    通话

    不及物

    It's been ages since we've spoken.

  9. 9.

    To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.

    引申义

    He spoke of it in his diary.

    Speak to me only with your eyes.

    Actions speak louder than words.

  10. 10.

    To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.

    不及物

    This evening I shall speak on the topic of correct English usage.

  11. 11.

    Of a bird, to be able to vocally reproduce words or phrases from a human language.

  12. 12.

    To address; to accost; to speak to.

    古体 及物

    Spoke the ship Union of Newport, without any anchor. The next day ran down to Acra, where the windlass was again capsized and the pawls broken.

词汇关系

动词

同义词 6

talk mouth address utter verbalize verbalise

上位词 7

sound express communicate utter verbalize intercommunicate verbalise

下位词 10

say read sing present continue begin level deliver chatter bay

近义相关 2

verbalize verbalise

参见 2

speak for speak up

相关短语

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词源

From Middle English speke, speken (“to speak”), from Old English specan (“to speak”). This is usually taken to be an irregular alteration of earlier sprecan, spreocan (“to speak”), from Proto-West Germanic *sprekan, from Proto-Germanic *sprekaną (“to speak, make a sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *spreg- (“to make a sound, utter, speak”). Finding this proposed loss of r from the stable cluster spr unparalleled, Hill instead sets up a different root, Proto-West Germanic *spekan (“to negotiate”) from Proto-Indo-European *bʰégʾ-e- (“to distribute”) with *s-mobile, which collapsed in meaning with *sprekan ("to speak" < "to crackle, prattle") and so came to be seen as a free variant thereof. Cognates Cognate with Scots speak, speik (“to speak”), Saterland Frisian spreke (“to speak”), West Frisian sprekke (“to speak”), Central Franconian sjprèche (“to speak”), Dutch and Low German spreken (“to speak”), German sprechen (“to speak”), Luxembourgish spriechen (“to speak”), and also with Albanian shpreh (“to express, manifest, show”) through Indo-European.

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