speech
英[spi?t?]
美[spit?]
- n. 演講；講話；[語] 語音；演說
英英釋意
- 1. the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience;
- "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets"
- 2. (language) communication by word of mouth;
- "his speech was garbled"
- "he uttered harsh language"
- "he recorded the spoken language of the streets"
- 3. something spoken;
- "he could hear them uttering merry speeches"
- 4. the exchange of spoken words;
- "they were perfectly comfortable together without speech"
- 5. your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally;
- "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"
- "her speech was barren of southernisms"
- "I detected a slight accent in his speech"
- 6. a lengthy rebuke;
- "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"
- "the teacher gave him a talking to"
- 7. words making up the dialogue of a play;
- "the actor forgot his speech"
- 8. the mental faculty or power of vocal communication;
- "language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals"