| 单词 | elocution |
| 释义 | elocution (once / 4564 pages) n If you're particularly good at elocution, or speaking clearly and expressively, you may have a successful career in radio ahead of you. Elocution is the skill of pronouncing your words correctly. There are even elocution coaches for actors, singers, or anyone else who wants to improve theirs. Elocution sometimes describes a particular style of speaking, like an announcer's elocution that sounds like he's from the Bronx. The Latin elocutionem is its root, meaning "manner of expression;" in Classical Latin it meant public speaking or oratory. WORD FAMILYelocution: elocutionary, elocutionist+/elocute: elocutes, elocuting, elocution, eloquent/elocutionist: elocutionists/eloquence: eloquences/eloquent: eloquence, eloquenter, eloquentest, eloquently/eloquently: ineloquently USAGE EXAMPLESSher delivers an eloquent performance in which words are caressed, sentences are elucidated, and the art of elocution is grandly paraded. Los Angeles Times(Nov 30, 2016) She also sought to obliterate her native accent with five-shilling weekly elocution lessons. The Guardian(Oct 14, 2016) You must have gone to the Barney Fife school of elocution. Los Angeles Times(Oct 08, 2016) n an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture Hyper delivery, manner of speaking, speech your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally |
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