| 单词 | recital |
| 释义 | recital (once / 1094 pages) 1n 2n The hardest part about piano lessons is having to give a recital, or to demonstrate what you've learned in front of an audience. You can also use the noun recital to describe the telling of a story. Your uncle might be famous for boring people at parties with his recital of youthful Boy Scout adventures, for example. In the 1500s, recital was strictly a legal term, the "statement of relevant facts," but the musical meaning had come into use by the 1800s. The root is the Latin word recitare, "repeat from memory." WORD FAMILYrecital: recitalist, recitals+/recitalist: recitalists/recitation: recitations/recite: recital, recitation, recited, reciter, recites, reciting/reciter: reciters USAGE EXAMPLESThis festive recital from Boston’s superb early-music choir is the thinking listener’s Christmas program. New York Times(Dec 15, 2016) Never deliver a medical monologue, or as he puts it, “leave the organ recitals for the concert hall.” New York Times(Dec 13, 2016) Informative notes, and full texts and translations, accompany this captivating recital by a significant talent. Washington Post(Dec 08, 2016) 1 1n a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance Syn|Hypo|Hyper reading, recitation declamation recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric oral presentation, public speaking, speaking, speechmaking delivering an address to a public audience 2n performance of music or dance especially by soloists 2Hyper performance, public presentation a dramatic or musical entertainment 1n a detailed statement giving facts and figures his wife gave a recital of his infidelities Hyper statement a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc 2n a detailed account or description of something he was forced to listen to a recital of his many shortcomings Hyper account, chronicle, history, story a record or narrative description of past events 3n the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events Syn|Hypo|Hyper narration, yarn recounting, relation, telling an act of narration account, report the act of informing by verbal report |
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