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单词 declaim
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Definition of declaim in English:

declaim

verb dɪˈkleɪmdəˈkleɪm
  • reporting verb Utter or deliver words in a rhetorical or impassioned way, as if to an audience.

    with object she declaimed her views
    no object a preacher declaiming from the pulpit
    an opportunity to declaim against the evils of society
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Speeches declaimed from the front of the stage explore theories about what is real and when an illusion becomes reality.
    • So there we were, declaiming the lines, complete with interpretive dance, and the audience sat there completely straight-faced and took everything seriously.
    • He has one of those public school faces that was created solely to stare up at blue English skies from a gently rocking punt while a tousle-haired type declaims Rupert Brooke.
    • ‘It is all a matter of resources,’ she declaimed.
    • He once started a concert by declaiming, in the haughtiest classical French, ‘I want to make one thing clear before I begin.’
    • Beautifully staged, with wonderfully spoken rather than declaimed language which makes it so much more understandable… at moments it seemed almost modern though I don't think the script was adapted at all.
    • Eminem, now wearing a smart suit and red tie, declaims in a style reminiscent of Martin Luther King.
    • As soon as he speaks, all you hear is some sixth-former declaiming bad poetry.
    • ‘A policeman without a gun is not a policeman! ‘he declaims and this axiom defines the gun culture of the Bonaerense.’
    • ‘The Tory party is immortal,’ he declaims, though he is hazier about precisely when its political fortunes will revive.
    • Although suspicious of unknown admirers, Tennyson was a sociable man, with a fondness for declaiming his work to a respectful audience.
    • His mouth was open, as though he were about to declaim a poem, or speak an epigram.
    • You can actually understand his words, and he declaims poetry as if he knows what it means.
    • He's bellowing over the music, declaiming Green policies.
    • In 1926, when O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars, was produced, there were violent scenes, Yeats declaiming to the audience that they had disgraced themselves again.
    • That these same words had been declaimed ten years earlier in rather different circumstances is not mentioned.
    • ‘Those words mean something to me,’ he declaimed.
    • ‘NGOs could be playing a more significant role,’ Omayma Khalil, secretary of the Women's National Council at Al-Tor City Council declaims.
    • At first I couldn't make out the words, just the preternaturally LOUD sound of a boy's voice flatly declaiming some sort of Important Announcement.
    • Robert Graves, leonine, ascended grandly and delivered hilarious impromptu remarks before declaiming a poem.
    Synonyms
    make a speech, give an address, give a talk, give a lecture, make an oration, deliver a sermon, give a sermon
    speak, hold forth, orate, pronounce, preach, lecture, sermonize, moralize
    informal sound off, mouth off, spiel, spout, speechify, preachify, jaw
    rare perorate
    recite, say aloud, read aloud, read out loud, read out
    quote, deliver, render
    informal spout
    rare bespout
    speak out, protest strongly, make a protest, make a stand, rail, inveigh, fulminate, rage, thunder
    rant about, expostulate about, make a fuss about, express disapproval of
    condemn, criticize, castigate, attack, decry, disparage
    informal mouth off about, kick up a stink about, go on about
    rare vociferate

Derivatives

  • declaimer

  • noun
    • High points include the assessment of the orator Cassius Severus and his comparative failure as a declaimer.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Apollonios of Athens won a name for himself among the Greeks as an able speaker in the legal branch of oratory, and as a declaimer he was not to be despised.
      • His role as declaimer seemed attached to, not intrinsic to the opera.
      • Do they read traditional suppliers of journalistic information, or mostly declaimers of opinions?

Origin

Late Middle English: from French déclamer or Latin declamare, from de- (expressing thoroughness) + clamare 'to shout'.

 
 

Definition of declaim in US English:

declaim

verbdəˈkleɪmdəˈklām
  • reporting verb Utter or deliver words or a speech in a rhetorical or impassioned way, as if to an audience.

    with object she declaimed her views
    no object a preacher declaiming from the pulpit
    an opportunity to declaim against the evils of society
    Example sentencesExamples
    • That these same words had been declaimed ten years earlier in rather different circumstances is not mentioned.
    • ‘NGOs could be playing a more significant role,’ Omayma Khalil, secretary of the Women's National Council at Al-Tor City Council declaims.
    • Beautifully staged, with wonderfully spoken rather than declaimed language which makes it so much more understandable… at moments it seemed almost modern though I don't think the script was adapted at all.
    • In 1926, when O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars, was produced, there were violent scenes, Yeats declaiming to the audience that they had disgraced themselves again.
    • So there we were, declaiming the lines, complete with interpretive dance, and the audience sat there completely straight-faced and took everything seriously.
    • He once started a concert by declaiming, in the haughtiest classical French, ‘I want to make one thing clear before I begin.’
    • His mouth was open, as though he were about to declaim a poem, or speak an epigram.
    • ‘The Tory party is immortal,’ he declaims, though he is hazier about precisely when its political fortunes will revive.
    • ‘It is all a matter of resources,’ she declaimed.
    • ‘Those words mean something to me,’ he declaimed.
    • ‘A policeman without a gun is not a policeman! ‘he declaims and this axiom defines the gun culture of the Bonaerense.’
    • Eminem, now wearing a smart suit and red tie, declaims in a style reminiscent of Martin Luther King.
    • You can actually understand his words, and he declaims poetry as if he knows what it means.
    • He has one of those public school faces that was created solely to stare up at blue English skies from a gently rocking punt while a tousle-haired type declaims Rupert Brooke.
    • Although suspicious of unknown admirers, Tennyson was a sociable man, with a fondness for declaiming his work to a respectful audience.
    • At first I couldn't make out the words, just the preternaturally LOUD sound of a boy's voice flatly declaiming some sort of Important Announcement.
    • Speeches declaimed from the front of the stage explore theories about what is real and when an illusion becomes reality.
    • He's bellowing over the music, declaiming Green policies.
    • Robert Graves, leonine, ascended grandly and delivered hilarious impromptu remarks before declaiming a poem.
    • As soon as he speaks, all you hear is some sixth-former declaiming bad poetry.
    Synonyms
    make a speech, give an address, give a talk, give a lecture, make an oration, deliver a sermon, give a sermon
    recite, say aloud, read aloud, read out loud, read out
    speak out, protest strongly, make a protest, make a stand, rail, inveigh, fulminate, rage, thunder

Origin

Late Middle English: from French déclamer or Latin declamare, from de- (expressing thoroughness) + clamare ‘to shout’.

 
 
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