speech

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate. uncountable
    — He had a bad speech impediment.
  2. The act of speaking, a certain style of it. uncountable
    — It was hard to hear his speech over the noise.
  3. A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person. countable
    — The candidate made some ambitious promises in his campaign speech.
  4. A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a language. countable
    — For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech, and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel.
  5. Language used orally, rather than in writing. uncountable
    — This word is mostly used in speech.
  6. An utterance that is quoted; see direct speech, reported speech countable,uncountable
  7. Public talk, news, gossip, rumour. uncountable
    — The duke[…]did of me demand / What was the speech among the Londoners / Concerning the French journey.
动词 v.
  1. To make (a speech); to harangue. intransitive,transitive
    — I'll speech against peace while Dismal's my name, / And be a true whig, while I'm Not-in-game.

词形变化

speeches plural speach alternative,obsolete speeches present,singular,third-person speeching participle,present speeched participle,past speeched past speach alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
locution parlance speech
下位词
after-dinner speech byspeech forespeech pressured speech
衍生词
acceptance speech antispeech audio-visual speech recognition avoidance speech by-speech caretaker speech child-directed speech compelled speech co-speech counterspeech cyberspeech endspeech figure of speech finger speech free as in speech freedom of speech free indirect speech free speech free speech zone furspeech hate-speech hate speech helium speech impulsive speech indirect speech keynote speech King's speech liberty of speech maiden speech midspeech misspeech nonspeech oblique speech opening speech part of speech plain speech prespeech pressure of speech protospeech Queen's speech running speech second-hand speech speech act speech balloon speech-based picking speech bubble speech community speechcraft speech-crier speech day speech disfluency speech disorder speecher speech fright speechfright speech from the throne speechful speechie speechification speechify speech impediment speechless speechlike speechlore speechmaker speechmaking speech mark speechment speech path speech pathologist speechreading speech recognition speech tag speech therapist speech therapy speech time speech way speechway speechworthy speechwright speechwriter speechwriting speechy stump speech symbolic speech text-to-speech throne speech time-assignment speech interpolation twin speech uwu speech Visible Speech
相关词
speak
部分词
oratory

词源

词源 1
From Middle English speche, from Old English spǣċ, sprǣċ (“speech, discourse, language”), from Proto-West Germanic *sprāku (“speech, language”), from Proto-Indo-European *spereg-, *spreg- (“to make a sound”). Cognate with Dutch spraak (“speech”), German Sprache (“language, speech”). More at speak.
词源 2
From Middle English speche, from Old English spǣċ, sprǣċ (“speech, discourse, language”), from Proto-West Germanic *sprāku (“speech, language”), from Proto-Indo-European *spereg-, *spreg- (“to make a sound”). Cognate with Dutch spraak (“speech”), German Sprache (“language, speech”). More at speak.
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