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单词 monologue
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monologuen.

Brit. /ˈmɒnəlɒɡ/, U.S. /ˈmɑnəˌlɔɡ/, /ˈmɑnəˌlɑɡ/
Forms: 1600s– monologue, 1900s– monolog (U.S.); Scottish pre-1700 monolog.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French monologue.
Etymology: < Middle French, French monologue speech in a play delivered by a single actor (early 16th cent.; 1811 in sense ‘long speech delivered by one person who forgets or neglects the presence of others’) < mono- mono- comb. form + -logue -logue comb. form. Compare earlier dialogue n.
1.
a. A long speech by one actor in a play, film, or broadcast programme. Also: a scene in a drama in which only one actor speaks (opposed to chorus and dialogue). Later more widely: a dramatic composition for a single performer; a dramatic entertainment performed throughout by one person (figurative in quot. 1849).
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > soliloquy or monologue
monologuec1550
monology1616
soliloquy1641
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > scene > type of scene or act
monologuec1550
monology1608
night scene1683
mad scene1741
drop-scene1815
recognition scene1838
carpenter's-scene1860
scène à faire1884
mob scene1890
sex scene1915
curtain1928
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) Tabula 148 The sext cheptor rehersis ane monolog recreatyue of the actor.
1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 46 I can show..in Catiline and Sejanus sometimes thirty or forty lines [of rhyme together]; I mean besides the Chorus, or the Monologues.
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Monologue, a Dramatick Scene, where only one Actor speaks.
1699 J. Wright Hist. Histrionica 28 The Monologues and the Pageants drawn from place to place on Wheels, answer exactly to the Cart of Thespis.
1756 S. Foote Englishman return'd from Paris ii. 44 Ah, a pretty Monologue, a fine Soliloquy this, Child.
?1767 D. Garrick Let. 26 Mar. (1963) II. 560 The running the different parts of a Monologue togeather, will necessarily give a Monotony.
1845 E. Holmes Life Mozart 200 The opera began with a monologue.
1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons I. vi. i. 251 Life is a drama, not a monologue.
1872 H. P. Liddon Some Elements Relig. iv. 132 The true sense of the monologue in Hamlet may be thus summed up.
a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. xiii. 226 The first number is a monologue, ‘The Mad Prince’, by that eminent artist, Gregory Tempest. He has delivered it before vast audiences amid thunders of applause.
1964 Punch 28 Oct. 655/2 Peter Cook with his sub-man monologues.
1984 B. Reid So Much Love ii. 12 I learned monologues from her, and she saw that I had acting potential.
b. As a mass noun: the form or style of speech or drama of this type.
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the mind > language > speech > monologue > [noun] > act or habit of speaking in
monology1616
soliloquya1668
monologue1668
soliloquizingc1822
soliloquacity1895
1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 20 He also gives you an account of himself..in Monologue, to which unnatural way of narration Terence is subject in all his playes.
1765 G. Colman Eunuch iv. i. 163 (note) He also gives you an account of himself, and of his returning from the country in monologue.
1879 L. Morris (title) Gwen: a drama in monologue, in six acts.
1892 Dict. National Biogr. XXX. 350/1 She began by taking the New Strand Theatre, where..she gave an entertainment in monologue, which became very popular.
1912 Dict. National Biogr. 1901–11 II. 457/1 His first song, ‘Going to Buy the Milk for the Twins’, a mixture of singing and monologue.., was so successful that he obtained an engagement at the Oxford Music Hall.
1983 Peter Grimes & Gloriana (BNC) (Eng. National Opera Guide No. 24) 22 The horror and introspection of Grimes's existence..is laid bare in monologue.
1992 G. Cook Discourse (BNC) 61 In 2 we looked at the details of formal lexical and grammatical connections between sentences in monologue.
c. A literary composition, or part of one, in the form of a soliloquy.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > other types of poem > [noun] > monologue
monology1616
monologue1780
1780 H. Cowley (title) A monologue.
1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics II. viii. vii. 75 Such passages..are preludes or interludes neighboured by heavy monologue.
1866 Athenæum 3 Feb. 175/1 Mr. Robert Buchanan's new volume of poems, ‘London Idyls’, will consist principally of monologues.
1885 Dict. National Biogr. II. 303/1 In 1856 Aytoun published ‘Bothwell’, a poetical monologue, dealing with the relations between the hero and Mary Queen of Scots.
1905 Mod. Philol. 2 372 They are specimens of the giedd or short monologue arising from a dramatic situation, such as occurs frequently in Beowulf.
1935 A. C. Bartlett Larger Rhetorical Patterns Anglo-Saxon Poetry 106 Monologue and duologue, direct and indirect discourse, all are undramatic.
1967 Guardian 20 Oct. 7/4 Just another New Yorkerish monologue.
1991 M. Dorris & L. Erdrich Crown of Columbus i. 16 My former boyfriend had been hard at work for years on an unrhymed monologue about Columbus.
2. A person who monopolizes conversation. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1625 J. Minsheu Ductoris in Linguas (ed. 2) A Monologian, or a Monologue, one that will haue all the talke to himselfe, or one that loues to heare himselfe talke.
3. A long, typically tedious, speech or harangue, delivered by one person who is in company or conversation with others; talk or discourse of the nature of a soliloquy.
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the mind > language > speech > monologue > [noun]
sole-talk1592
soliloquiuma1612
soliloquy1613
soliloque1697
monologue1859
1859 A. Helps Friends in Council New Ser. II. v. 115 Notice the self-contained talker, whose talk is a monologue.
1873 W. Black Princess of Thule iii. 46 He was pleasing himself with a series of monologues, interrupted only by his cigar.
1905 A. C. Benson Upton Lett. (1906) 310 He will plunge into a fiery monologue about his ambitions.
1958 P. Gibbs Curtains of Yesterday 128 He was in a talkative mood..and held everybody spellbound by a brilliant monologue on post-war problems and the danger of Russian Communism to the future of Europe.
1998 P. Lovesey Death Duties (1999) xxi. 134 The old motormouth..had succeeded in turning their annual pre-Christmas sherry foursome into a continuous wittering monologue.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

monologuev.

Brit. /ˈmɒnəlɒɡ/, U.S. /ˈmɑnəˌlɔɡ/, /ˈmɑnəˌlɑɡ/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: monologue n.
Etymology: < monologue n. Compare slightly later monologize v.
1. intransitive. To talk in monologue; to deliver a monologue.
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the mind > language > speech > monologue > talk in monologue [verb (intransitive)]
soliloquize1759
to think aloud (also out loud)1789
monologue1825
Hamletize1844
monologuize1870
monologize1890
1825 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) V. 508 Even to monologue with you telegraphically is to enjoy a Half-holiday.
1863 M. James Not an Angel I. 140 Miss Mary..monologued the while, after her manner.
1894 G. Moore Esther Waters 41 Feeling that he had secured an appreciative listener, he continued to monologue regarding the wealth and rank his family had formerly held.
1903 ‘T. Collins’ Such is Life v. 175 I monologued pleasantly on the topics of the day.
1967 Punch 26 Apr. 614/3 Sometimes the dreaminess of these characters monologuing before friends who pay no heed is allowed to become too private so that they seem to be acting inside spheres of glass.
1986 J. Wain Fair Shadows 93 Marshall monologued and I very willingly listened.
2. transitive. To utter as a monologue. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > language > speech > monologue > utter in monologue or soliloquy [verb (transitive)]
soliloquize1805
monologue1834
1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 367/1 ‘What, the rectory of ——, if I'll change my coat?’ monologues the vicar.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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