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英 [spiːtʃ] 美 [spiːtʃ]

• n. 演说；演讲；言语；语言能力

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [U] 说话,言谈; 言语; 说话能力

   the act or power of speaking; spoken language

2. [U] 说话方式

   the way of speaking of a person or group

3. [C] 演说,演讲; 讲话

   an act of speaking formally to a group of listeners

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 说话
2. 演说
3. 说话能力
4. 民族语言
5. 方言
6. 专门语言
7. 台词
8. 说话方式
9. 演讲
10. 发言
11. 演讲法
12. 辩论术
13. 叙述法
14. 讲话
15. 言语
16. 言论
17. 流言
18. 谈话
19. 言词
20. 致词

英英释义

Noun:

1. the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience;

   "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets"
   

2. (language) communication by word of mouth;

   "his speech was garbled"
   "he uttered harsh language"
   "he recorded the spoken language of the streets"
   

3. something spoken;

   "he could hear them uttering merry speeches"
   

4. the exchange of spoken words;

   "they were perfectly comfortable together without speech"
   

5. your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally;

   "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"
   "her speech was barren of southernisms"
   "I detected a slight accent in his speech"
   

6. a lengthy rebuke;

   "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"
   "the teacher gave him a talking to"
   

7. words making up the dialogue of a play;

   "the actor forgot his speech"
   

8. the mental faculty or power of vocal communication;

   "language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. The mayor made a speech at the opening.
   市长在开幕式上发表了演说。
2. The speaker will soon wind up his speech.
   演说者就要结束他的讲话了。
3. I had to give a speech to the press club.
   我得向记者俱乐部发表演说。
4. He closed his speech with a funny joke.
   他用一则有趣的笑话结束了演讲。
5. We express our thoughts by speech.
   我们用言语表达思想。
6. He had lost the power of speech.
   他丧失了语言能力。
7. Only human beings are capable of speech.
   只有人类才具有说话的能力。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. He lost his power of speech.
   他失去了说话的能力。
2. Only human beings possess the faculty of speech.
   只有人类具有说话的能力。
3. Fear robbed him of speech.
   他害怕得说不出话来。
4. Reading good books helps to refine one's speech.
   阅读好书有助于使你的谈吐高雅。
5. Language is speech, writing is merely a device for recording speech.
   语言是说的话,文字只是记录言语的一种手段。
6. The speech of the islanders is hard to understand.
   岛上居民的语言很难听懂。
7. The native speech of Guangdong is still popular among Chinese Americans in China Town.
   广东方言在唐人街美籍华人中仍很流行。
8. By her speech, we can tell that she is from Shanghai.
   听她的口音我们知道她是上海人。
9. I think young people are sometimes disrespectful in their speech.
   我认为年轻人有时说话失礼。
10. His indistinct speech makes it impossible to understand him.
    他口齿不清,无法听懂他的意思。
11. He can express himself better in speech than in writing.
    他用语言比用文字更能表达自己的意思。
12. In his campaign speech he blasted the Opposition.
    他在竞选演说中猛烈地抨击他的对手。
13. His speech was so long; it should have been pruned.
    他的演说太长了,本应该删掉一些。
14. His public speeches were permeated with hatred of injustice.
    在他对民众的演说里,充满了对不公正的愤慨。
15. The opposition speaker made a lively speech, pitching into the government for its ineffective actions.
    反对党发言人发表演说,猛烈抨击政府毫无效果的行动。
16. He spiced his speech with stories and jokes.
    他用故事与笑话给他的讲演增添了趣味。
17. I'm preparing a speech for the meeting on Thursday.
    我在为星期四会议上的讲演做准备。
18. The dinner and speeches occupied more than three hours.
    宴会和演讲占了三个多小时。
19. The mayor recited to the Queen a long and tedious speech of welcome.
    市长向女王背了一篇又臭又长的欢迎词。
20. I missed the first part of the speech.
    我没听到报告的第一部分。
21. I can't understand his speech on how we can conquer ourselves.
    我不能理解他作的我们如何能控制自己的演讲。
22. It was unwise in your speech to refer to rising unemployment.
    你在发言中提到失业人数的增加是不明智的。
23. He has abstracted the speech.
    他对讲话作了摘要。
24. He broke down in the middle of his speech.
    他讲了半截停了下来。
25. I was abruptly notified that a half-hour speech was expected of me.
    我突然被通知要讲半个小时的话。
26. Our representative was called upon to make a speech.
    我们的代表应邀作了讲话。
27. Angry cries met his speech.
    听众发出愤怒的叫喊声来反对他的讲话。
28. He pitched his speech so that even the children could understand.
    他带着一种特殊的表情讲话,以便孩子们也能听懂。
29. We have the records of all their speeches.
    我们有他们全部讲话的录音。
30. Their concern is manifested mainly in fine speeches, rather than in practical solutions.
    他们的关心主要表现在说漂亮话上,而不在寻找切合实际的解决办法上。

～+to n.

1. I had to give a speech to the Press Club.
   我得向记者俱乐部发表演说。
2. The radio station agreed to beam the Minister's speech to the whole Europe.
   广播电台同意对全欧广播该大臣的讲话。

经典引文

• Speech, even more than reason, distinguishes man from the brute.

  出自： H. Reed

• I wanted to shout..but I seemed incapable of speech.

  出自： J. Marquand

• A swelling in his throat..had begun to affect his power of speech.

  出自： G. Daly

常用短语

用作名词 (n.)

find one's speech

说出话 speak word

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• address a speech to sb 给某人作报告
• close a speech 结束讲话
• deliver a speech 发表演讲
• find one's speech 说得出话
• improvise a speech 即席演说
• learn speech 学说话
• lose one's speech 说不出话
• make a speech 发表演说
• prepare a speech 准备演说
• record a speech 把讲话录下来
• recover speech 恢复说话能力
• understand sb's speech 听懂某人的话
• wander in speech 演说时东拉西扯

形容词+～

• after-dinner speech 餐后演讲
• clear speech 说话清楚
• concluding speech 闭幕词,结束演说
• educated speech 有教养的谈吐
• free speech 言论自由
• general speech 一般的讲话
• long speech 长篇演说
• open speech 公开演说
• opening speech 开幕词
• ordinary speech 日常说话
• political speech 政治演说
• powerful speech 有影响力的演讲
• set speech 经过准备的演说
• short speech 简短的发言
• welcoming speech 欢迎辞
• common speech 共同语言
• direct speech 直接引语
• everyday speech 日常用语
• human speech 人类言语
• indirect speech 间接引语
• musical speech 音乐语言
• national speech 民族语言
• popular speech 大众语言
• reported speech 间接引语
• the native speech 本族语

名词+～

• acceptance speech 〈美〉总统候选人接受政党提名时所作的演讲
• answering speech 答词
• campaign speech 竞选演说
• curtain speech (剧作者,演员或演出人的)谢幕词
• farewell speech 告别词
• radio speech 广播讲话

介词+～

• freedom of speech 言论自由
• organs of speech 发音器官
• power of speech 语言能力,说话的能力

～+介词

• speech about 有关…的演说
• speech for humanity 人类言语
• speech of welcome 欢迎辞
• speech on the war 关于战争的演说

词语用法

n. (名词)

1. speech的基本意思是“说话,说话能力”,指人的一种语言的能力。speech也可作“说话方式”解,指人们为了表达自己的某一意图而采取的一种表达方式,作以上两义解时, speech是不可数名词。
2. speech还可作“演说,演讲; 讲话”解,通常指在公共场合为群众所作的讲话,强调影响、教育或娱乐群众。这种讲话可以是有准备的或措词庄重的,可以是正式的或是非正式的,有时还可指讲话或讲话稿的风格。作此解时speech是可数名词。

词义辨析

n. (名词)

speech, address, lecture, oration, report, talk

• 1.在这组词中, address, speech, talk, oration四个词是同义词, lecture和report的词义与其他四个词的词义差异较大。
• ①lecture指学术性的“专题讲演”,尤指大学教师讲课,引申义为“教训”。例如：
• Professor Black will give us a lecture on English literature tomorrow afternoon.布莱克教授明天下午将给我们做关于英国文学的演讲。
• His mother gave him a lecture for getting up late.他妈妈因为他睡懒觉而训斥了他一顿。
• 注意这六个词中只有lecture不可与make连用。
• ②report指下级对上级或委托机关的“报告”,比汉语中“报告”的外延小得多。例如：
• The manager had just given the company's annual report.经理刚做了公司的年度报告。
• 2.address, speech, talk, oration四个词的共同含义是“当众讲话”。其区别是：
• ①speech和talk是普通用语, address和oration是正式用语。
• ②address和oration用于正式隆重的场合,经过充分准备,听众较多,篇幅较长。这两者中, oration比address更正式,更隆重,人更多,篇幅更长。例如：
• The minister's address will be broadcast at 8 o'clock.部长的讲话将于8时广播。
• Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was an oration.林肯的盖茨堡讲演是一篇雄辩有力的演说辞。
• 这两个词含义上的区别是：address强调演说人的身份或地位高,而oration则强调演说人口才好,演说有煽动性,雄辩有力,词藻华丽。
• ③speech和talk的区别是：speech多用于正式场合,也可用于非正式场合; 而talk多用于非正式场合,也可用于正式场合。speech一般是经过准备的也可不经过准备; 而talk一般是不经过准备的。speech的措辞一般是庄重的; 而talk是较为随便的,讲话方式也较自由,甚至也可以是对话。例如：
• Please tell us what you think in a few simple words, we don't want a speech.请用简短的话说明你的意思,不要演说。
• We enjoy freedom of speech.我们有言论自由。
• We had a long talk about it.关于此事,我们作了一次长谈。
• He gave us a very interesting talk on Yugoslavia.他给我们作了一场饶有兴趣的关于南斯拉夫的报告。
• ④speech除作“讲演”解之外,还有“讲稿”“讲演风格”的含义,而另外三个词无此含义。例如：
• His speech was sent to the newspaper in advance.他的讲话稿事先就送报社去了。
• Her speech is informal and filled with colloquialisms.她的讲话常是非正式的,很口语化。

下面两句意思相同:

• The teacher is going to have speech with the student who played truant.
• The teacher is going to have a word with the student who played truant.
• 老师准备和逃学的那个学生谈谈话。

address，speech，lecture，oration，report，talk

• 这些名词均含“演讲，讲话，报告”之意。
• address正式用词，指在庄严隆重的场合作精心准备的演讲或正式演说。
• speech普通用词，指一般的发言或讲话，可以是事先准备的，也可以是即席的。
• lecture侧重带学术性的演讲。
• oration常指在特殊场合，辞藻华丽，形式庄重，旨在激发听众感情的正式演说。
• report一般是指下级给上级或负责人给委托机关的书面或口头报告。
• talk常用词，强调非正式讲话，讲话方式一般较为自由。

language，speech，tongue，dialect，idiom，slang

• 这些名词均含“语言”之意。
• language普通用词，含义广。指人的语言或文字，或动物的语言。既可指口头或书面语言，也可指手势语等。
• speech特指人的口语，也指正式的讲话。
• tongue书面用词，指人的语言，亦指人的母语。
• dialect指一种语言中，某一地方所特有的语言形式，即方言。
• idiom指一种语言中一般由几个词结合成短语或句子的特殊表达方式，即惯用语、成语。也指方言。
• slang指俚语。

常见错误

n. (名词)

1. 当女孩子在一旁时,他说话总是结结巴巴。

   误 He always has trouble with his the speech when there are girls around.

   正 He always has trouble with his speech when there are girls around.

   析 当表示“言语”“说话(能力)”时, speech为抽象名词,不可数,前面不加任何冠词。

近反义词

【近义词】

• address
• lecture
• oration
• report
• talk
• accent
• diction
• pronunciation

【反义词】

• silence 沉默