Declaim
[dɪ'kleɪm] or [dɪ'klem]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) speak against in an impassioned manner; 'he declaimed against the wasteful ways of modern society'.
(verb.) recite in elocution.
校對:露辛达--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the students declaim twice a week.
(v. i.) To speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant.
(v. t.) To utter in public; to deliver in a rhetorical or set manner.
(v. t.) To defend by declamation; to advocate loudly.
格雷西校對
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. [1]. Harangue, spout, speak (rhetorically).[2]. Recite a speech, practise speaking.
埃伦校對
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Harangue, recite, apostrophize, speak, debate, inveigh
ANT:Bead, study, compose, elaborate
布赖斯手打
解釋/意思:
v.i. to make a set or rhetorical speech: to harangue: to recite in public.—ns. Declaim′ant Declaim′er.—p.adj. Declaim′ing.—ns. Declamā′tion act of declaiming: a set speech in public: display in speaking.—adj. Declam′atory of the nature of declamation: appealing to the passions: noisy and rhetorical merely.
錄入:内德
例句/造句/用法:
- It is the humor of many heads to extol the days of their forefathers, and declaim against the wickedness of times present. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Once when he was taking a bottle of medicine to a sick woman in the country he began to declaim a stirring speech, and at its climax threw the bottle away. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- He had declaimed himself into a violent heat, and was as hoarse as he was hot. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Who does not know how our great men are outdoing themselves, in declaiming against the _foreign_ slave-trade. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
校對:克劳斯