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recitation

/res-i-tey-shuhn/US // ˌrɛs ɪˈteɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌrɛsɪˈteɪʃən) //

背诵,朗诵,诵读,朗诵会

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act of reciting.
    • : a reciting or repeating of something from memory, especially formally or publicly.
    • : oral response by a pupil or pupils to a teacher on a prepared lesson.
    • : a period of classroom instruction.
    • : an elocutionary delivery of a piece of poetry or prose, without the text, before an audience.
    • : a piece so delivered or for such delivery.

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Examples

  • Try to ask someone what they watched on television last night and you’ll get a recitation of shows, but as sure as there were shows, there was advertising.

  • Poindexter followed with a recitation of the Iran program filled with deliberate inaccuracies.

  • Any list of his conspicuous qualities turns out to be a recitation of opposites.

  • He then went through a scornful recitation of all the things he could do if he wanted to settle for cheap laughs.

  • Moreover, this racial recitation is not done as a neutral or factual explanation as to why Baby Girl is considered Cherokee.

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

  • He gasped a few times, then, gathering strength again, went on with that horrible spasmodic recitation.

  • The second grammar class had been relieved from a recitation by this confab, and somehow Perry had a subduing influence.

  • I believe I can pick out all these playwrights by a reference to their recitation papers.

  • Jess told what she had heard at the door of the recitation room that afternoon, and they laughed over it.

  • Mr. Purcell never noticed her out of the recitation room—Mr. Read was more lofty—Josephine more contemptuous than ever.