Speak
[spiːk] or [spik]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) use language; 'the baby talks already'; 'the prisoner won't speak'; 'they speak a strange dialect'.
(verb.) make a characteristic or natural sound; 'The drums spoke'.
校對:赛克--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak.
(v. i.) To express opinions; to say; to talk; to converse.
(v. i.) To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally.
(v. i.) To discourse; to make mention; to tell.
(v. i.) To give sound; to sound.
(v. i.) To convey sentiments, ideas, or intelligence as if by utterance; as, features that speak of self-will.
(v. t.) To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings.
(v. t.) To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; to declare orally; as, to speak the truth; to speak sense.
(v. t.) To declare; to proclaim; to publish; to make known; to exhibit; to express in any way.
(v. t.) To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation; as, to speak Latin.
(v. t.) To address; to accost; to speak to.
巴纳比手打
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. [1]. Articulate, enunciate, talk with articulate sounds.[2]. Plead, spout, hold forth, make a speech, discourse, harangue, declaim.[3]. Treat, make mention.[4]. Sound, resound.
v. a. [1]. Utter, express, deliver, pronounce, articulate.[2]. Announce, make known, spread abroad, proclaim, declare.[3]. (Naut.) Hail.
編輯:维姬
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Converse, discourse, talk, utter, pronounce, say, express, accost, address,tell,[See FRUGAL]
錄入:玛丽埃塔
解釋/意思:
v.i. to utter words or articulate sounds: to say: to talk: to converse: to sound: to give expression by any means to intimate to hint.—v.t. to pronounce: to converse in: to address: to declare: to express by signs:—pa.t. spoke or spāke; pa.p. spō′ken.—adj. Speak′able capable of being spoken: (Milt.) having the power of speech.—ns. Speak′-eas′y (U.S.) an illicit dram-shop shebeen; Speak′er one who speaks or proclaims: the person who presides in a deliberative or legislative body as the House of Commons; Speak′ership the office of Speaker; Speak′ing the act of expressing ideas in words: discourse.—adj. seeming to speak: natural: used to assist the voice.—adv. Speak′ingly.—ns. Speak′ing-trum′pet an instrument for enabling the sound of the voice to be conveyed to a greater distance; Speak′ing-tube a tube communicating from one room to another for speaking through; Speak′ing-voice the kind of voice used in speaking.—Speak a ship to hail and speak to some one on board her; Speak fair to address one in conciliatory terms; Speak for to speak on behalf of: to be a proof of: to bespeak engage; Speaking terms a relationship between two persons not extending beyond the courtesy of verbal salutation &c.; Speak of to talk about: to mention or to be worth mentioning; Speak one's mind to say frankly what one thinks; Speak out to assert boldly or loudly; Speak to to reprove: to attest testify to; Speak up to speak out; Speak well for to witness favourably to.—So to speak as one might put it as it were.
整理:奥拉
例句/造句/用法:
- Speak to her, Miss Fanny! 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- One sees very little about it in the newspapers and popular magazines, in spite of the fact that it is the keystone, so to speak, of the motion-picture industry. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I have called it insuperable, and I speak advisedly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- He has just been saying that he doesn't care to speak of it. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I saw them stop near the church and speak to the sexton's wife, who had come from the cottage, and had waited, watching us from a distance. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The boy's eyes had lighted with pleasure as I spoke, and I saw him glance from his rusty trappings to the magnificence of my own. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- He made that brief reply warmly, dropping his hand on the table while he spoke, and turning towards us again. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Southey spoke of him as a miraculous young man, at whose talents he could only wonder. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Dorothea spoke in a full cordial tone, half caressing, half explanatory. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- When I spoke again I was composed enough to treat his impertinence with the silent contempt that it deserved. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Why, the breeches-maker, said Bob Manners, speaking very slow. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- In speaking of education Plato rather startles us by affirming that a child must be trained in falsehood first and in truth afterwards. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- He studies her at his leisure, not speaking for a time. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- We have been speaking of life in its lowest terms--as a physical thing. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- When he was speaking of it in that way, I honestly said that _the_ _world_ I could give upparties, balls, playsfor I had no fear of retirement. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- I have as yet spoken as if the varieties of the same species were invariably fertile when intercrossed. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- I knew Mrs. Reed had not spoken for days: was she reviving? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Not a word had been spoken during the present session on any of these topics. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- He described her ladyship as willing to acknowledge that she had spoken over-hastily. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- She would have spoken to tell her husband her fears, but checked herself. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- One often speaks of a ring as being 14-carat gold, or of 22- or 18-carat watch cases or jewelry, but do all of us know just what we mean by 14, 18 or 22 carat? 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- But (lowering her voice)nobody speaks except ourselves, and it is rather too much to be talking nonsense for the entertainment of seven silent people. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Only it's dull enough to sit in a room where everything speaks to you of a dead friend. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Do not make a fool of thyself and I will try not to make a fool of myself talking with people who cannot understand what one speaks of. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- And he speaks uncommonly well--does Casaubon. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- So spake the doctor. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- She hears no more o' Mr. Moore's talk nor if he spake Hebrew. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But the gentleman with the lumpy forehead having for the time delivered himself of all that he found behind his lumps, spake for the time no more. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- But the lumpy gentleman, unwilling to give it up, again madly said, 'ESKER,' and again spake no more. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Presently they spake unto a citizen and said, Who is King in Ephesus? 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
校對:佩德罗