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declaim

/dih-kleym/US // dɪˈkleɪm //UK // (dɪˈkleɪm) //

朗诵,朗诵会,朗读,朗朗上口

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech: Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building.
    • : to inveigh: He declaimed against the high rents in slums.
    • : to speak or write for oratorical effect, as without sincerity or sound argument.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to utter aloud in an oratorical manner: to declaim a speech.

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Examples

  • It was demanded of psychologists that they declaim on all that screaming and its meaning.

  • It's what is ongoing and visible, so it's the part that people get to judge and assess and gossip about and declaim on.

  • The word Qur’ān means recitation, coming from the root q-r-‘, which means primarily to recite or declaim and then to read.

  • Experts and negotiators will declaim over the bowl full of details in Obama's Thursday speech.

  • Yes, dissent is patriotic, as liberals love to declaim, but assent is an important part of patriotism too.

  • Their speeches were not so long, and they did not declaim so vehemently.

  • It was her hobby to declaim against the popular idea of the existence of the human spirit apart from the body.

  • He may as usefully declaim against friendship, comradeship, the love of man for woman or of mother for child.

  • Without this pivotal action, the reader is apt to declaim a monologue, and confuse it with a speech.

  • The same servant would declaim, with the quaintest, semi-tragical gestures, Pinens rle in Boris-Gudunov.