speech

A2 CET-4 Oxf 3000 初中 FREQ #1788 ★★★★☆

n. 演讲, 说话, 谈话, 言语, 引语, 民族语言 [医] 言语, 语言

发音

US /spiːt͡ʃ/
其它 /spiːt͡ʃ/
其它 /spɛːt͡ʃ/

词形变化

speeches 复数 speeches speeched speeches 三单 speeching speeching 现在分词 speeched 过去式 speeched 过去分词

别名

speeche speach Merica

教材释义与例句

名词

演讲;讲话;[语] 语音;演说

a talk, especially a formal one about a particular subject, given to a group of people

He has to make a lot of after-dinner speeches .

他经常要发表席后演说。

Collins gave the keynote speech (= most important speech ) .

科林斯作了主题发言。

释义与例句

n. A2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.

    不可数 可数

    He had a bad speech impediment.

    After the accident she lost her speech.

  2. 2.

    The act of speaking, a certain style of it.

    不可数 可数

    It was hard to hear his speech over the noise.

    Her speech was soft and lilting.

  3. 3.

    A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.

    语言

    演说

    说话

    讲话

    可数 不可数

    The candidate made some ambitious promises in his campaign speech.

  4. 4.

    A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a language.

    可数 不可数
  5. 5.

    Language used orally, rather than in writing.

    不可数 可数

    This word is mostly used in speech.

  6. 6.

    An utterance that is quoted; see direct speech, reported speech

    可数 不可数 语言学
  7. 7.

    Public talk, news, gossip, rumour.

    不可数 可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To make (a speech); to harangue.

    不及物 及物

词汇关系

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词源

From Middle English speche, from Old English spǣċ, sprǣċ (“speech, discourse, language”), from Proto-West Germanic *sprāku (“speech, language”), from Proto-Indo-European *spereg-, *spreg- (“to make a sound”). Cognate with Dutch spraak (“speech”), German Sprache (“language, speech”). More at speak.

来源:wiktionary