| 释义 |
recite /ri-sītˈ/ transitive verb- To repeat from memory
- To declaim
- To read aloud (rare)
- To narrate
- To enumerate
- To give (the details of)
- To repeat to a teacher, have heard a lesson in (US)
intransitive verb- To give a recitation
- To repeat, or have heard, a lesson (N American)
ORIGIN: L recitāre, from citāre, -ātum to call recīˈtable adjective recīˈtal noun - The act of reciting
- Setting forth
- Enumeration
- Narration
- A public performance of music, usu by one performer or composer, or of some particular character
- That part of a deed which recites the circumstances (law)
recīˈtalist noun recitation /res-i-tāˈshən/ noun - The act of reciting
- A piece for declaiming
- The repeating or hearing of a prepared lesson (N American)
- Hence a lesson generally (N American)
recitāˈtionist noun A declaimer recitative /-tə-tēvˈ/ or recitativo /re-sit-ä-tēˈvō or (Italy) rā-chē-tä-tēˈvō/ noun (pl recitativesˈ, recitatiˈvos or (Italy) recitatiˈvi /-vē/) - A style of song resembling speech in its succession of tones and freedom from melodic form
- A passage to be sung in this manner
adjective In the style of recitative reciter /ri-sītˈər/ noun recitāˈtion-room noun (N American) A classroom recitˈing-note noun The note on which, in a Gregorian chant, the greater part of a verse is sung |