Speaker
['spiːkə] or ['spikɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous); 'the speaker at commencement'; 'an utterer of useful maxims'.
(noun.) the presiding officer of a deliberative assembly; 'the leader of the majority party is the Speaker of the House of Representatives'.
校對:塞勒斯特--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who speaks.
(n.) One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker.
(n.) One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides over, or speaks for, a delibrative assembly, preserving order and regulating the debates; as, the Speaker of the House of Commons, originally, the mouthpiece of the House to address the king; the Speaker of a House of Representatives.
(n.) A book of selections for declamation.
埃塞雷德編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Discourser, orator, spokesman, prolocutor.[2]. Chairman, presiding officer.
手打:维吉尔
例句/造句/用法:
- Davy was an eloquent, enthusiastic, forceful speaker. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- I started, but was only discomposed a moment; I knew the voice and speaker. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- When the Demarch ended, he raised his head with a bitter smile on his pallid face, and flung out his hand threateningly towards the speaker. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I muttered between my teeth: you are no bad speaker, Zéliewhen you begin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- With a footstep as soft and gentle as the voice, the speaker tripped away. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Hence they generally study oratory, the best speaker having the most influence. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- He entered the House of Commons and took the Speaker's chair. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Every variation in the speaker's voice is repeated in the vibrations of the metal disk and hence in the minute motion of the pointer and in the consequent record on the cylinder. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The speaker gave an arch little nod. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Very likely, my dear; I never was a good speaker. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The speaker was a chieftain and he was giving orders to four of his warriors. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Yes; Caliphronas is a good English speaker, but he makes mistakes in proper names. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- As a speaker at charitable meetings the like of him for drawing your tears and your money was not easy to find. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The face of the tall straight woman turned slowly and as if drugged to this new speaker. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The emphasis was helped by the speaker's mouth, which was wide, thin, and hard set. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- It is not until the speakers and the publicity agents have actually begun to animate it that the country sees what the party is about. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Rawlins, who proved himself one of the ablest speakers in the State. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- It must have been a pretty effective barrier between the Aryan speakers and the people in north-eastern Asia. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- For the study of politics I should say unhesitatingly that it is more important to know what socialist leaders, stump speakers, pamphleteers, think Marx meant, than to know what he said. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- This gallery swarmed with people eager for a scene, ready to applaud or shout down the speakers below. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This is constantly done by good speakers, even when they anticipate no answer. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Gradually these Keltic-speakers made their way to the Atlantic, and all that now remains of the Iberians is mixed into the Keltic population. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Its speakers were in or past the Neolithic stage of civilization. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- On every side of the circular area were little tribunes, or stations, for the use of speakers and auctioneers. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- He prepared his lectures with the greatest care, and he delivered them with that attention to dramatic effect which is instinctive in all really great speakers. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- It does not affect the clear evidence of a very long and very ancient prehistoric separation of the speakers of these three diverse groups of tongues. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The abler speakers were obliged to play to the gallery, and take a sentimental and sensational line. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Hamitic speakers to-day, like the Semitic speakers, are mainly of the Mediterranean Caucasian race. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
校對:特伦斯