单词 | fluency |
释义 | fluency (once / 4106 pages) n Do you have a way with words? Can you speak and write easily? Then you have fluency. Fluency is a type of smoothness used most often when talking about language. You could study a language — like Spanish — for years and not really gain fluency. To have fluency — in other words, to be fluent — takes a lot of practice. Fluency can't be achieved overnight. That kind of expert use of language takes time, and it helps if you get a chance to visit a country where they speak the language you're learning. WORD FAMILYfluency: disfluency, fluencies+/fluent: fluency, fluentest, fluently USAGE EXAMPLESA fluency with Shakespeare’s language that allowed her to manifest the minds of her characters without resorting to imposed psychology. Los Angeles Times(Dec 19, 2016) Under Bennett’s matchless eye, “Dreamgirls” moved from beginning to end as a sustained, kinetic entity that folded even Robin Wagner’s set into an unstoppable fluency. New York Times(Dec 15, 2016) “All children need to practice fluency and comprehension skills, and why not read while getting a haircut?” she said. Washington Times(Dec 11, 2016) 1n powerful and effective language fluency in spoken and written English is essential Syn|Hyper eloquence, smoothness expressive style, style a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period 2n skillfulness in speaking or writing Ant|Hyper disfluency lack of skillfulness in speaking or writing skillfulness the state of being cognitively skillful 3n the quality of being facile in speech and writing Syn|Hyper articulateness, volubility communicativeness the trait of being communicative |
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