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utterance

/uht-er-uhns/US // ˈʌt ər əns //UK // (ˈʌtərəns) //

话语,言语,言谈举止,话语权

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act of uttering; vocal expression.
    • : manner of speaking; power of speaking: His very utterance was spellbinding.
    • : something uttered; a word or words uttered; a cry, animal's call, or the like.
    • : Linguistics. any speech sequence consisting of one or more words and preceded and followed by silence: it may be coextensive with a sentence.
    • : Obsolete. a public sale of goods.

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Examples

  • It is not that the octopus’s utterances make sense, but rather that the islander can make sense of them, Bender says.

  • The utterance emerged in February 2019 from Fox & Friends presenter Pete Hegseth, who was referring to … germs.

  • One of the most interesting, self-aware utterances on the topic came from Theo Epstein on the day last fall when he stepped down as president of baseball operations for the Chicago Cubs.

  • His every appearance and utterance drove the sport’s news cycle.

  • Namely, don’t waste time paying attention to and parsing the utterances of the playoff committee until Selection Sunday.

  • Around my own friends, someone will wind up a conversation with a shrug and a baffling—to me—utterance of “Haters gonna hate.”

  • All the while, his father continues to make headlines with his every eyebrow-raising utterance.

  • His dying utterance, “I feel my whole body burning,” was widely reported.

  • In recent weeks, the markets have been hanging, more than usual, on every Bernanke utterance.

  • Which, in such cases—the act or the utterance, the gesture or the text—is the palimpsest of other?

  • And having nothing in their minds which seeks utterance, they remain quiet.

  • The flood of language and emotion, too long suppressed, again rose to his very lips—when a slight sound stopped his utterance.

  • Its utterance filled the air like soft thunder, and a hush came over the whole room.

  • His aching heart, filled with an immeasurable love, remained without the relief of utterance.

  • He simpered awhile and toyed with trivialities of speech before he gave utterance to the matter that absorbed him.