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monologue

/mon-uh-lawg, -log/US // ˈmɒn əˌlɔg, -ˌlɒg //UK // (ˈmɒnəˌlɒɡ) //

独白,单口相声,独角戏,单词

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a form of dramatic entertainment, comedic solo, or the like by a single speaker: a comedian's monologue.
    • : a prolonged talk or discourse by a single speaker, especially one dominating or monopolizing a conversation.
    • : any composition, as a poem, in which a single person speaks alone.
    • : a part of a drama in which a single actor speaks alone; soliloquy.

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Examples

  • As a result, everyone gets frustrated, nothing feels equitable or productive, and the loudest voice ends up dominating, reducing the dialogue to their own monologue.

  • The inhabitants of a planet named Koppai have almost run out of food, the opening monologue tells us, due to “a booming population, a booming appetite and a basic lack of planning.”

  • Meditating or journaling, for example, can help you actively listen to that inner monologue and adjust the language you use to process what’s going on around you.

  • Instead, Bufka recommends working on adjusting your inner monologue to something more patient and accepting.

  • He alternates between bursts of inspiration and intense dissections of medical research or sci-fi movie plots in hard-to-follow monologues that many people find captivating.

  • We shake hands and he immediately begins a monologue about prison breaks and South America.

  • Gil took weeks to build a monologue, skillfully turning the words on their head.

  • In one particularly affecting monologue, AJ discusses his frustration and troubles upon returning to the US.

  • I never watch television," he says, then corrects himself: "Well, sometimes Carson's monologue.

  • Rivers continued on her political, authoritarian monologue by describing what kind of tyrant she would be.

  • Marie answered him whenever his monologue required answer, but she was unresponsive, uninterested—bored.

  • The first result was a shower of invitations to tea, occasions when Laura was easily led into monologue.

  • And this time, it was Wade who began talking in a monologue.

  • In this story we find the furrier engaged in a monologue, in which he tells of his delight in making the Rabbi's cap.

  • For the first time Bert displayed some interest in the conversation, or monologue, as one might more properly call it.