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speech island

语音岛,言语岛,语言岛,讲话岛

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Linguistics.

    • : a speech community that is completely surrounded by another, usually larger, speech community.

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Examples

  • Those are troubling numbers, for unfettered speech is not incidental to a flourishing society.

  • There is no such thing as speech so hateful or offensive it somehow “justifies” or “legitimizes” the use of violence.

  • We need to recover and grow the idea that the proper answer to bad speech is more and better speech.

  • Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.

  • The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America.

  • Alessandro turned a grateful look on Ramona as he translated this speech, so in unison with Indian modes of thought and feeling.

  • And so this is why the clever performer cannot reproduce the effect of a speech of Demosthenes or Daniel Webster.

  • A lateen sail was visible in the direction of Cat Island, and others to the south seemed almost motionless in the far distance.

  • He said no more in words, but his little blue eyes had an eloquence that left nothing to mere speech.

  • A volcano broke out in the island of St. George, one of the Azores.