speech
n. 演讲, 说话, 谈话, 言语, 引语, 民族语言 [医] 言语, 语言
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词形变化
别名
教材释义与例句
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a language.
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Language used orally, rather than in writing.
不可数 可数This word is mostly used in speech.
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An utterance that is quoted; see direct speech, reported speech
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Public talk, news, gossip, rumour.
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To make (a speech); to harangue.
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词汇关系
同义词 6
上位词 10
下位词 10
部分词 10
整体词 3
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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.
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