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单词 hold forth
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hold forth

Talk lengthily, assertively, or tediously about a subject: he was holding forth on the merits of the band’s debut LP...
  • Despite his insistence that his faith is a private matter, he has made it a public issue, and rarely misses an opportunity to hold forth on the subject.
  • They had been rigorously secular until one night when they attended a party and heard someone holding forth on the unlikely subject of hidden codes in the Torah.
  • For two days, women held forth on a subject long considered taboo.

Synonyms

speak at length, talk at length, speak, talk, go on, sound off;
declaim, discourse, spout, expatiate, pontificate, orate, preach, sermonize;
lecture, harangue, fulminate
informal spiel, speechify, preachify, drone on
rare perorate
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