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speech

英 [spiːtʃ] 美[spitʃ]

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n. 演讲；讲话；[语] 语音；演说

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The author was advised against the improper use of figures of speech.

She had no patience for brilliant but irrelevant figures of speech.

It is a thing of no great difficulty, according to Plutarch, to raise objections against another man's speech, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.

Criticizing someone's speech is said to be easier than coming up with a better one.

Mr Obama's plan to curb carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions (排放), though necessary, will be far from cost-free, whatever his sunny speeches on the subject might suggest.

She is fond of telling stories in her speech.

I'm preparing for the speech contest.

Practicing for a speech contest

While Gail Obcamp, an American artist was giving a speech on the art of Japanese brush painting to an audience that included visitors from Japan, she was confused to see that many of her Japanese listeners have their eyes closed.

What did Obcamp's speech focus on

Why do Japanese listeners sometimes close their eyes while listening to a speech?

Informative speeches can save lives.

But they were definitely surprised and distressed to be referred to as 'he' in your speech.

"It is a thing of no great difficulty," according to Plutarch," to raise objections against another man's speech, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome."

She had no patience for brilliant but irrelevant figures of speech.

The roots of his speech, given in March at the roundtable meeting of environment and energy ministers from the G20 group of nations, stretch back to 1972, and the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm.

President Barack Obama declared in a speech last month to the Center for American Progress.

But I can never forget the first speech of thanks I did.

So what did you say in your speech of thanks?

When I arrived, the secretary asked me if I could give the speech of thanks.

You are going to give a short speech of thanks for the speaker this evening, aren't you, Bill?

And I went into a speech about how hard I worked and the gains I was making.

Speech is silver; silence is gold.

Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet, Turin notes, the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities.

When he brings his speech to a nice conclusion, Whaley invites the rest of the class to praise him.

When the world was sill populated by hunter-gatherers, small tightly knit groups developed their own patterns of speech independent of each other.

How does your reading proceed? Clearly you try to comprehend, in the sense of identifying meanings for individual words and working out relationships between them, drawing on your explicit knowledge of English grammar ( ' , 41) you begin to infer a context for the text, for insta4ce, by making decisions about what kind of speech event is involved: who is making the utterance, to whom, when and where.

"There seems to be a predominance of short-term thinking at the expense of long-term investing," said Commissioner Daniel Gallagher of the US Securities and Exchange Commission in speech this week.

In a recent speech in Lowa, he dismissed wind power as an unreliable energy source.

The Internet affords anonymity to its users, a blessing to privacy and freedom of speech.

You begin to infer a context for the text, for instance, by making decisions about what kind of speech event is involved: who is making the utterance, to whom, when and where.