| 单词 | speak |
| 释义 | speak I. intransitive verb 1. a. < swallowed once or twice before she was able to speak — Mary Austin > < does not find it necessary to speak … at the top of his lungs — B.R.Redman > b. (1) < not for three years to speak with any men — Alfred Tennyson > < why don't you speak for yourself — H.W.Longfellow > (2) < are embarrassed … and they often blush when spoken to on the street — Carl Withers > (3) < still are speaking after a quarter century of collaboration — Lewis Nichols > (4) < promised to speak to the boy about his laziness > c. (1) < spoke from one end of the state to the other during the campaign > < spoke to the club on gardening > (2) < I should like to speak to the nominations — Report: Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey > 2. a. < as a writer of great talent he speaks with clarity and eloquence — R.K.Carr > < these lines … speak of the saddest thing we know — H.A.Overstreet > b. < science speaks in the conventionalized precision of mathematical language — T.H.Littlefield > — often used in the phrase so to speak < here he was at the enemy's gates, so to speak — C.S.Forester > c. < associations presuming to speak for higher education — J.K.Little > < the dominant interests of the electorate for whom they speak — Cabell Phillips > < writers … speak for their age — Caroline Gordon > 3. a. < eyes that speak too plainly — W.S.Gilbert > < she said nothing at all but her strong fingers spoke for her — Louis Bromfield > < actions speak louder than words > b. < our steamer spoke in a short, sharp blast — William Beebe > c. < great music … is intelligible to children since it speaks directly to the emotions — A.N.Whitehead > < nature speaks to us … through our senses — Susanne K. Langer > 4. a. < suppose you speak for tea — Jane Austen > b. < among the companies which have spoken for these later models — Horace Sutton > 5. a. < and let the kettle to the trumpet speak — Shakespeare > < all at once the thunder spoke — George Meredith > b. < discovered that the saxophone speaks easily — Deems Taylor > c. < the big guns that spoke so thunderously that wild night — H.L.Merillat > d. of a hound 6. a. < if his trial is held in absentia his dossier will speak in his defense — Kay Boyle > < how the old tub took those tossing seas … spoke well for her builders — H.A.Chippendale > b. < his gold … spoke of riches in the land — Julian Dana > < schools and museums all speak of the past — D.W.Brogan > c. < the acres of white marble … speak for the purity of justice — John Mason Brown > d. < his thrift and industry speak well for his future > transitive verb 1. a. (1) < once the words were spoken she was sorry — Carson McCullers > < speak the speech I pray you … trippingly on the tongue — Shakespeare > (2) < little girls who were going to speak pieces, fluttering about in white dresses — Della Lutes > b. < the English clergy spoke their mind very freely on the subject — L.F.Salzman > c. (1) archaic < speaking him in that … tongue — P.J.Bailey > (2) < a stranger came to the door at eve and … spoke the bridegroom fair — Robert Frost > d. < when you pass other yachts speak them — H.A.Calahan > 2. a. < letting the Bible speak its message to them — J.C.Swaim > < in this passage the man himself is speaking … his innermost convictions — H.O.Taylor > b. obsolete < speak me to her in the best language of affection — Robert Loveday > c. < the municipal council … had ceased to speak the sense of the citizens — T.B.Macaulay > 3. < has lived there and speaks both Spanish and Portuguese — H.G.Doyle > 4. a. < his eager smile … spoke devotion — Hugh Walpole > < what color means, color alone can speak — Louise Nicholl > b. < his various addictions … speak the amateur — F.R.Leavis > c. archaic < his whole person … speaks him a man of quality — Richard Steele > d. < these trumpets speak his presence — Nicholas Rowe > < the tower-clock spoke night — Henry Treece > 5. < we'd like to speak some friendly wraith to tell us news — Bookman > 6. archaic a. < may'st thou live ever spoken our protector — John Fletcher > b. < to speak him true … no keener hunter after glory breathes — Alfred Tennyson > 7. < another long passage that speaks volumes for the formalist viewpoint — Hunter Mead > 8. < spoke himself into the common council — New Monthly Magazine > Synonyms: < speak at a university commencement > < speaking as a guest of honor > talk in general may suggest less formality and is likely to implicate auditors or interlocutors < we talk in the bosom of our family in a way different from that in which we discourse on state occasions — J.L.Lowes > converse may imply interchange of opinions and ideas < don't ever remember hearing my parents converse, and they never even chatted. My father would expound on law and ritual, my mother would listen — S.N.Behrman > • - to speak of II. chiefly Scotland III. < there would be token raids now and then but the speak usually opened the next day — C.B.Davis > |
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