| 单词 | discourse |
| 释义 | dis·course I. 1. archaic a. < he that made us with such large discourse — Shakespeare > b. < a beast that wants discourse of reason — Shakespeare > 2. obsolete 3. a. < we need to have a fairly definite point of departure for intelligent discourse — Robert Humphrey > often < let your discourse with men of business be short and comprehensive — George Washington > b. < his discourses with his puritan colleagues — Sidney Lovett > 4. a. < what seemed sapient discourse … is rather puerile chatter now — G.W.Johnson > < the forms of discourse > b. < the lecture … is an acute and suggestive discourse upon a subject that has always occupied his attention — Bliss Perry > < the preacher, who would interrupt his discourse to denounce a dormant worshiper — American Guide Series: Michigan > 5. obsolete a. b. c. 6. linguistics Synonyms: < the sermon was a discourse on the apostle's thoughts > < a learned discourse on the effect of the tariff > treatise is likely to refer to a formal methodical written exposition, often more detailed but less pointed and persuasive than a discourse < a scholarly and comprehensive treatise > < there are several excellent treatises on Thoreau's literary sources — H.S.Canby > tractate, now not much used, means and implies about the same things as treatise, but may be somewhat contentious < the fabulists were right, he reflected, when they took beasts to illustrate their tractates of human morality — Aldous Huxley > disquisition may apply to a discussion more exploratory and investigative than definitive < many of Burke's reflections on the theme of history are of a purely empirical character, being disquisitions about the direction human affairs are likely to follow if certain conditions are (or are not) fulfilled — Times Literary Supplement > dissertation is likely to imply examination, usually academic, of a subject, and discussion at length; often the word applies to treatises written to attest fitness for higher university degrees < a tradition has developed that a dissertation in economics must be a sizable tome — H.R.Bowen > < the reason, perhaps, why scholarly dissertations upon literature are so often merely scholastic enumerations of minutiae — John Dewey > thesis may designate the statement, explanation, and defense of a proposition < Miss L———'s extremely suggestive thesis is that the transition from Elizabethan-Jacobean to later Caroline comedy is primarily economic — T.S.Eliot > It is often used in reference to essays written by candidates for the master's degree. monograph may refer to a learned treatise on a limited subject < a monograph on the earliest Roman coins > < a monograph on this subspecies > II. intransitive verb 1. a. < we talk in the bosom of our family in a way different from that in which we discourse on state occasions — J.L.Lowes > b. < let us discourse beneath this knotty carob tree — Norman Douglas > 2. obsolete transitive verb 1. archaic 2. < an orchestra discoursed soft, seductive music — A.W.O'Neil > < eloquently discoursed and invested with the necessary virtuosity — Current Biography > 3. obsolete Synonyms: < to discourse knowledgeably about the laws of nature today requires a formidable apparatus of mathematics — Times Literary Supplement > < discourses in his usual manner on the technique and value of mystical contemplation — Gerald Bullett > expatiate implies ranging over a subject, often without restraint and sometimes at will, connoting more copiousness in the product than does discourse < was forever expatiating on the close resemblance between the methods of art, as shown especially in painting, and the methods of moral action — Havelock Ellis > < in another lecture I shall expatiate on the idea — William James > < he expatiated on the theme that organization produces the great thinker — H.J.Laski > dilate implies an enlarging upon the details of a subject of discourse < as it is not right to damp a native enthusiasm, Redworth let him dilate on his theme — George Meredith > < he reverted to his conversation of the night before, and dilated upon the same subject with an easy mastery of his theme — Elinor Wylie > descant stresses free comment, often connoting a delight in the expression of one's views < descanted again and again on the virtues of silence — Max Herzberg > < loves to descant on personalities — princes, statesmen, poets — G.K.Anderson > III. < male-dominated discourses — Marian M. Sciachitano > < critical discourses > |
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