首页英语词典speechspeech的意思

speech

英 [spiːtʃ] 美[spitʃ]

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近义词asseveration declaration remark mention comment observation

反义词

n. 演讲；讲话；[语] 语音；演说

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词态变化

复数: speeches;

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1. k ----------------> ch/tch.
2. speak => speech.

中文词源

speech 说话，演讲，演说，发言

构成 speak 的名词形式，引申诸相关词义。

英英释意

1. the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience;: "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets"

2. (language) communication by word of mouth;: "his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets"

3. something spoken;: "he could hear them uttering merry speeches"

4. the exchange of spoken words;: "they were perfectly comfortable together without speech"

5. your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally;: "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"

6. a lengthy rebuke;: "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to"

7. words making up the dialogue of a play;: "the actor forgot his speech"

8. the mental faculty or power of vocal communication;: "language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals"

英文词源

speech: speech: [OE] Speech originated as a derivative of the late Old English verb specan, ancestor of modern English speak. It was originally used for the ‘action of speaking’ in general, or for ‘conversation’; the modern application to an ‘address delivered to an audience’ did not emerge until the 16th century.
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speech (n.): Old English spæc "act of speaking; power of speaking; manner of speaking; statement, discourse, narrative, formal utterance; language," variant of spræc, from Proto-Germanic *sprek-, *spek- (cognates: Danish sprog, Old Saxon spraca, Old Frisian spreke, Dutch spraak, Old High German sprahha, German Sprache "speech;" see speak (v.))

The spr- forms were extinct in English by 1200. Meaning "address delivered to an audience" first recorded 1580s.
And I honor the man who is willing to sink
Half his present repute for the freedom to think,
And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak,
Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak,
Caring naught for what vengeance the mob has in store,
Let that mob be the upper ten thousand or lower.

[James Russell Lowell, "A Fable for Critics," 1848]

同义词辨析

address, speech, lecture, oration, report, talk

这些名词均含"演讲，讲话，报告"之意。

address：正式用词，指在庄严隆重的场合作精心准备的演讲或正式演说。

speech：普通用词，指一般的发言或讲话，可以是事先准备的，也可以是即席的。

lecture：侧重带学术性的演讲。

oration：常指在特殊场合，辞藻华丽，形式庄重，旨在激发听众感情的正式演说。

report：一般是指下级给上级或负责人给委托机关的书面或口头报告。

talk：常用词，强调非正式讲话，讲话方式一般较为自由。

language, speech, tongue, dialect, idiom, slang

这些名词均含"语言"之意。

language：普通用词，含义广。指人的语言或文字，或动物的语言。既可指口头或书面语言，也可指手势语等。

speech：特指人的口语，也指正式的讲话。

tongue：书面用词，指人的语言，亦指人的母语。

dialect：指一种语言中，某一地方所特有的语言形式，即方言。

idiom：指一种语言中一般由几个词结合成短语或句子的特殊表达方式，即惯用语、成语。也指方言。

slang：指俚语。

考试真题

The author was advised against the improper use of figures of speech.

She had no patience for brilliant but irrelevant figures of speech.

It is a thing of no great difficulty, according to Plutarch, to raise objections against another man's speech, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.

Criticizing someone's speech is said to be easier than coming up with a better one.

Mr Obama's plan to curb carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions (排放), though necessary, will be far from cost-free, whatever his sunny speeches on the subject might suggest.

She is fond of telling stories in her speech.

I'm preparing for the speech contest.

Practicing for a speech contest

While Gail Obcamp, an American artist was giving a speech on the art of Japanese brush painting to an audience that included visitors from Japan, she was confused to see that many of her Japanese listeners have their eyes closed.

What did Obcamp's speech focus on

Why do Japanese listeners sometimes close their eyes while listening to a speech?

Informative speeches can save lives.

But they were definitely surprised and distressed to be referred to as 'he' in your speech.

"It is a thing of no great difficulty," according to Plutarch," to raise objections against another man's speech, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome."

She had no patience for brilliant but irrelevant figures of speech.

The roots of his speech, given in March at the roundtable meeting of environment and energy ministers from the G20 group of nations, stretch back to 1972, and the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm.

President Barack Obama declared in a speech last month to the Center for American Progress.

But I can never forget the first speech of thanks I did.

So what did you say in your speech of thanks?

When I arrived, the secretary asked me if I could give the speech of thanks.

You are going to give a short speech of thanks for the speaker this evening, aren't you, Bill?

And I went into a speech about how hard I worked and the gains I was making.

Speech is silver; silence is gold.

Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet, Turin notes, the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities.

When he brings his speech to a nice conclusion, Whaley invites the rest of the class to praise him.

When the world was sill populated by hunter-gatherers, small tightly knit groups developed their own patterns of speech independent of each other.

How does your reading proceed? Clearly you try to comprehend, in the sense of identifying meanings for individual words and working out relationships between them, drawing on your explicit knowledge of English grammar ( ' , 41) you begin to infer a context for the text, for insta4ce, by making decisions about what kind of speech event is involved: who is making the utterance, to whom, when and where.

"There seems to be a predominance of short-term thinking at the expense of long-term investing," said Commissioner Daniel Gallagher of the US Securities and Exchange Commission in speech this week.

In a recent speech in Lowa, he dismissed wind power as an unreliable energy source.

The Internet affords anonymity to its users, a blessing to privacy and freedom of speech.

You begin to infer a context for the text, for instance, by making decisions about what kind of speech event is involved: who is making the utterance, to whom, when and where.

实用场景例句

to give/make/deliver a speech on human rights: 就人权问题发表演讲

He made the announcement in a speech on television.: 他在一次电视讲话中发表了这一声明。

Several people made speeches at the wedding.: 有几个人在婚礼上讲了话。

I seemed to have lost the power of speech .: 我好像话都说不出来了。

a speech defect: 言语能力缺陷

freedom of speech (= the right to say openly what you think): 言论自由

Her speech was slurred─she was clearly drunk.: 她说话含混不清——她显然是喝醉了。

This expression is used mainly in speech, not in writing.: 这种表达主要用于口语，而不是书面语。

speech sounds: 语音

She has the longest speech in the play.: 在这部剧中，她的台词最长。

...the development of speech in children...: 儿童言语能力的发展

Intoxication interferes with speech and coordination.: 醉酒会影响言语能力和协调性。

His speech became increasingly thick and nasal...: 他说话的声音变得越来越粗，鼻音越来越重。

I'd make fun of her dress and imitate her speech.: 我会拿她的衣着开玩笑，并模仿她说话。

He could imitate in speech or writing most of those he admired.: 他能模仿大多数自己崇拜的偶像的讲话和写作风格。

...the way common letter clusters are usually pronounced in speech.: 普通字母组合在口语中的常见读法

She is due to make a speech on the economy next week...: 她将在下周作一个关于经济的演讲。

He delivered his speech in French.: 他用法语发表演说。

...the hilarious speech from Alan Bennett's 'Forty Years On'.: 艾伦·贝内特的《弹指四十年》中的一段非常有趣的台词

The boy's manner of speech jarred on the teacher, who came from a different part of the country.: 那孩子说话的神态令那位来自外地的老师感到不舒服.

In a rousing speech, the President hit out against the trade union.: 在一次令人振奋的讲话中, 总统对工会进行了猛烈的抨击.

The professor bogged down in the middle of his speech.: 教授的演讲只说了一半便讲不下去了.

His speech was dreary.: 他的讲演枯燥乏味.

He is vain of his speech.: 他对自己的发言很得意.

I'm always nervous when I make a speech.: 在发言时我总是感到紧张.

The cleverly designed speech lashed the audience into a frenzy.: 这篇精心设计的演说煽动听众使他们发狂.

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