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shakespeare

/sheyk-speer/US // ˈʃeɪk spɪər //UK // (ˈʃeɪkspɪə) //

莎士比亚,莎士比亞,沙士比亚,莎翁

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : William, "the Bard"; "the Bard of Avon", 1564–1616, English poet and dramatist.

Examples

  • Our mental life — perception, memory, volition — is not the work of what Shakespeare called “cool reason” alone.

  • He says, “When you tackle Shakespeare’s great roles you change on a cellular level, so the place is filled with adrenalized memories for me.”

  • In fact, the Shakespeare project, which Elizebeth had first encountered as a young woman in 1916, now seems like a minor side project compared to her other achievements.

  • Maybe if we never started burning fossil fuel, civilization would have continued along the path it was traveling in Shakespeare’s time, 400 years ago.

  • It’s this algorithm that, you know, you give it a few words and it will spit out paragraphs and paragraphs of what looks convincingly like Shakespeare or whatever else you tell it to do.

  • Shakespeare,” said Professor Watson, “wrote a story for each of us and in them we can hear what we want.

  • My trip takes the reverse path, and I begin by assessing the depth of my Shakespeare knowledge in his birthplace.

  • Apparently, Shakespeare coined 1,700 words, from the frequently used (excitement) to the should-be-more frequently used (spewed).

  • Was it Shakespeare, in mad pursuit of a lovely boy and that voluptuous Dark Lady?

  • You were the first black actor to play an English king in a major Shakespeare production, and the media treated it bizarrely.

  • What is, then, this precious drink I read of in my Shakespeare—so precious, that your lordship will not trust him to his butler?

  • We will try another case: You want to remember the number of plays that Shakespeare wrote.

  • The king had written against Tobacco, and Will Shakespeare set his watch to the time.

  • Then a humorist told some of his own funny stories and an elocutionist recited a bit from Shakespeare effectively.

  • On the subject of Shakespeare's height he could not speak with assurance, but Keats was only just over five feet.