Discourse
['dɪskɔːs;-'kɔːs] or ['dɪskɔrs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) extended verbal expression in speech or writing.
(verb.) to consider or examine in speech or writing; 'The author talks about the different aspects of this question'; 'The class discussed Dante's `Inferno''.
校對:桑福德--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty.
(n.) Conversation; talk.
(n.) The art and manner of speaking and conversing.
(n.) Consecutive speech, either written or unwritten, on a given line of thought; speech; treatise; dissertation; sermon, etc.; as, the preacher gave us a long discourse on duty.
(n.) Dealing; transaction.
(v. i.) To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
(v. i.) To express one's self in oral discourse; to expose one's views; to talk in a continuous or formal manner; to hold forth; to speak; to converse.
(v. i.) To relate something; to tell.
(v. i.) To treat of something in writing and formally.
(v. t.) To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.
(v. t.) To utter or give forth; to speak.
(v. t.) To talk to; to confer with.
整理:帕斯夸里
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. [Rare.] Reason, reasoning faculty.[2]. Dissertation, treatise, disquisition, homily, sermon.[3]. Conversation, talk, oral communication, verbal intercourse.
v. n. [1]. Speak, expatiate, hold forth, deliver a discourse.[2]. Talk, converse, parley, confer, advise, hold a conversation, hold a parley or conference, talk together.
v. a. Utter, emit, give forth.
哈蒂編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
[See CONVERSATION]
錄入:斯威尼
解釋/意思:
n. speech or language generally: conversation: the reasoning faculty: a treatise: a sermon.—v.i. to talk or converse: to reason: to treat formally.—v.t. to utter or give forth.—n. Discours′er (Shak.).—adj. Discours′ive.
约翰校對
例句/造句/用法:
- You gave me leave, at any time within a year, to renew the subject of our last discourse. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The reader is privileged to remain, and try what he can make of the discourse. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The demonstrations of the enemy's immediate approach cut off all farther discourse. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The young swarm of Hypanians, who may be advanced one hour in life, approach his person with respect, and listen to his improving discourse. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- She did not tell me what you suspect--she is not the person to proclaim such things; but yet I inferred something from parts of her discourse. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She then changed the discourse to one more gratifying to each, and on which there could be no difference of sentiment. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- The Disinherited Knight then addressed his discourse to Baldwin, the squire of Brian de Bois-Guilbert. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Revived by soup, Twemlow discourses mildly of the Court Circular with Boots and Brewer. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- This will immediately cut off all loose discourses and declamations, and reduce us to something precise and exact on the present subject. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- He added, that he had heard too much upon the subject of war, both in this and some former discourses. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Then he took a skull and held it in his hand, and looked reflectively upon it, after the manner of the grave-digger when he discourses of Yorick. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- We gather up the fragments of His discourses, but neither do they represent Him as He truly was. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Yes, Socrates, said Glaucon, and the whole of life is the only limit which wise men assign to the hearing of such discourses. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- This was my sincere endeavour in those many discourses I had with that monarch, although it unfortunately failed of success. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Signs of intelligence seemed to pass between them, and Pitt spoke with her on subjects on which he never thought of discoursing with Lady Jane. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Here and there a Hatchment, with the whole science of Heraldry in it, loomed down upon the street, like an Archbishop discoursing on Vanity. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Here were she, Mrs Lammle, and her husband discoursing at once affectingly and effectively, but discoursing alone. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Among these, accordingly, much discoursing with spirits went on--and it did a world of good which never became manifest. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- I mean rather that unhappy people are often preoccupied, and not in the mood for discoursing with companions of my nature. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Lady Crackenbury read the paragraph in bitterness of spirit and discoursed to her followers about the airs which that woman was giving herself. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- My attention was far from him, and from the topics on which he discoursed so fluently. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- They seemed glad to meet and rest awhile in the meadow; here they discoursed with one another of what they had seen in the other world. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- To me he discoursed ceaselessly of his beloved Ionian. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- His friend responded as Eugene would have had him respond, and they discoursed of the future until Lizzie came back. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
編輯:沃伦