| 释义 |
speech-making, vbl. n.
[f. as prec.]
The action or fact of making or delivering speeches.
1718J. Trapp tr. Virgil Pref. to æneis (1735) I. p. xl, I do not understand why Speech-making in an Heroick Poem must be called Dramatic. 1820T. Mitchell Aristoph. I. p. lxiii, When a mania took place in Athens, whether for cock-fighting or speech-making,..it was no slight obstacle that could oppose it. 1870Disraeli Lothair xlix. 264 Speech-making is a new thing for me. 1876Ruskin St. Mark's Rest iv. §47 Through sixteen hundred years of effort and speech-making, and fighting.
b. An instance or occasion of this.
1835J. Foster Life & Corr. (1846) II. 302 Some of our journals and speech-makings. 1845Dickens Chimes ii. (ed. 2) 73 Don't look for me to come up into the Park when there's a Birthday, or a fine Speechmaking. |