Oration
[ɒ'reɪʃ(ə)n] or [ɔ'reʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an instance of oratory; 'he delivered an oration on the decline of family values'.
整理:苏西--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An elaborate discourse, delivered in public, treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner; especially, a discourse having reference to some special occasion, as a funeral, an anniversary, a celebration, or the like; -- distinguished from an argument in court, a popular harangue, a sermon, a lecture, etc.; as, Webster's oration at Bunker Hill.
(v. i.) To deliver an oration.
海耶斯校對
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Discourse, address, speech, HARANGUE.
錄入:卡利
同義詞及反義詞:
[See COGITATE]
編輯:塞格雷
解釋/意思:
n. a public speech of a formal character: an eloquent speech.—n. Oratiun′cle a brief speech.
塞西莉整理
例句/造句/用法:
- What he did on those occasions was to turn up his cuffs, stick up his hair, and give us Mark Antony's oration over the body of Caesar. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- After the ceremony of presentation, an oration, or discours, was to follow from one of the professors. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Which of these two speeches, think you, would be the best oration for your own funeral? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- My charms to him were nought: nor my oration: But what care I for Murray's admiration! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Mr. Pickwick's oration upon this occasion, together with the debate thereon, is entered on the Transactions of the Club. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- And how the curates will hammer over their prepared orations! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
編輯:帕梅拉