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单词 commentary
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Definition of commentary in English:

commentary

nounPlural commentaries ˈkɒmənt(ə)riˈkɑmənˌtɛri
  • 1An expression of opinions or offering of explanations about an event or situation.

    a biting social commentary about the divide between rich and poor
    an editorial commentary
    mass noun a narrative overlaid with commentary
    Example sentencesExamples
    • As now, users will need to visit the journal's website for related editorials, commentaries, and rapid responses and to print out copies of the article that look like those in the paper journal.
    • Over the next few weeks, there will be a number of articles, television programs and radio commentaries regarding the problems we are facing with suicide.
    • Editorials and commentaries deal with the behaviour of rats, the importance of trees, the need to appreciate weather and the role of socks in society.
    • In the West, a clear distinction is made between news reporting, which is expected to be impartial and unbiased, and commentaries and editorials.
    • Editorials or commentaries that are perceived as one-sided are bound to bring requests for equal time or space from opponents.
    • In the Herald today is an opinion commentary from the very left-leaning Jones.
    • Countless numbers of articles, columns and commentaries discussed the content and meaning of the classified material found therein.
    • This article is presented as a commentary on just one American university.
    • These fears have been reflected in several newspaper editorials and commentaries urging the government to reconsider.
    • Well, for a start, all three are frequently trotted out in newspaper commentaries describing the victims of the latest investment scam.
    • What follow are personal accounts and commentaries by activists about the protests and police actions.
    • Who on earth can be bothered writing political commentaries?
    • Barking headlines, hard-biting editorials, sharp commentaries, satirical cartoons and investigative exposes are now common features of our media.
    • Enough already about eyewitness observations, commentaries, editorials and conspiracy theories.
    • He has added an anti-Scottish meanness in his commentary and editorials.
    • But you want to do a critical commentary on some issue in popular culture today?
    • The aim, of course, was to ensure that the angle of every report, quite apart from the editorials and commentaries, should reinforce the papers' political agendas.
    • We excluded editorials, commentaries, articles for debate and education, narrative reviews, letters, and case reports.
    • The change in the government's stance came after a spate of unfavorable newspaper editorials and commentaries.
    • What can one say about this dismal situation in an editorial or a commentary?
    Synonyms
    essay, dissertation, treatise, paper, discourse, tract, monograph, study, article
    1. 1.1 A descriptive spoken account (especially on a broadcast) of an event or performance as it happens.
      a live commentary on radio
      Example sentencesExamples
      • For many years Radio Cambridgeshire has been the only radio station to provide live commentary of every home and away game.
      • And that is why his television commentary this summer at both Wimbledon and the US Open was given favourable reviews.
      • Gone are the days when we waited for the morning newspaper to fill in crucial gaps in the radio commentary of a cricket match.
      • In those days, when we had no tickets for the game and no TV, we'd stand by the stadium and listen to the radio commentary.
      • Thursday was the first day in-house ear pieces were on sale, allowing fans to hear the television commentary.
      • During your flight your captain will give you a full commentary, describing the scene below.
      • It's a fast-paced mix of news, analysis, live commentaries and special reports.
      • He will also present other sports programmes for BBC London, fitting them into his schedule of commentaries for BBC Radio Five Live.
      • Last season the station covered an amazing 1,336 games with live commentaries at 405 games, more than any other broadcaster ever.
      • The commentary team went crazy for the second and third Mexico goals.
      • Live Cup commentaries from every round of the Cup on Radio Scotland and a significant number of ties streamed live on the Internet.
      • There's also the chance to access a selection of live audio commentaries of football and rugby matches, from BBC radio teams in England and Scotland.
      • Sometimes my Dad would get annoyed with the cricket commentary on TV, turn down the sound and listen to the commentary on the radio.
      • John Motson has been a television football commentator for the BBC since 1971, and has recently started doing radio match commentaries for BBC Radio Five Live.
      • The voice-over commentary covers his thoughts, a technique that can be dangerously indulgent.
      • A small onstage screen will give a running commentary in English.
      • Kuttner also does occasional commentaries for National Public Radio.
      • Often, after the programme, he would fly to the continent to do the live commentary on a Sunday afternoon international.
      • Green has been providing his unique commentaries for Radio Five since it started in 1994 and will continue to do so.
      • He was probably the first man to broadcast ball-by-ball commentary on English radio, in 1927.
      Synonyms
      narration, description, account, report, review, analysis
    2. 1.2 A set of explanatory or critical notes on a text.
      a commentary on the Old Testament
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His stunning new commentary on Galatians is already making the same impact on Pauline studies.
      • If only Brian Herbert would follow the example of Christopher Tolkien and publish the notes along with other commentaries.
      • The abbreviated text could be in Latin or Anglo-Norman French and was usually accompanied by a commentary.
      • The commentary explains how all can live in Krishna consciousness even while performing the daily duties.
      • The commentary in the book describing the Ashmolean Museum Collection states that: Figure 4 above shows a bronze buckle from the Caucasus Mountains, from the Old Hellenic Period, found in Georgia.
      • Each is accompanied by the author's informative commentary which ranges from Roman roads to last century's shopkeepers.
      • Moreover, the author's commentary on events is sensible, and the work is well illustrated and attractive.
      • Along the way Gray offers idiosyncratic commentaries on Chaucer, Pepys, Gibbon, Milton and Burns.
      • We begin with a text commentary from director Ruzowitsky and lead actor Barnaby Metschurat.
      • The broad crucial overviews in Section I are followed in Section II by commentaries on individual texts or authors.
      • Here, in a 1535 commentary on Galatians 3: 13, Luther explains what took place on the Cross.
      • Hoekstra, who was not involved in the new study, wrote an accompanying commentary in Nature.
      • An editorial commentary by Levine and colleagues accompanies this article.
      • Today this commentary appears on the " inner " margin of virtually every Talmudic page.
      • However she assisted her father Theon of Alexandria in writing his eleven part commentary on Ptolemy's Almagest.
      • A good commentary on the text will raise these buried questions to consciousness.
      • A competent catalogue with the usual high-quality illustrations and commentary accompanies the exhibition.
      • National made very specific comments in its minority report in the commentary on the bill.
      • The Javanese system comprises thousands of Islamic boarding schools that have been set up to teach the core texts of Islam, along with critiques and commentaries on those texts.
      • The commentary to both texts notes that significant harm need not be substantial but must be ‘more than trivial’.
      Synonyms
      explanation, explication, elucidation, exegesis, examination, interpretation, analysis
      criticism, critical analysis, critique, assessment, appraisal, opinion
      notes, footnotes, comments, weblog, blog, vlog
      rare scholia

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin commentarius, commentarium (adjective, used as a noun), from commentari, frequentative of comminisci 'devise'.

Rhymes

promontory
 
 

Definition of commentary in US English:

commentary

nounˈkämənˌterēˈkɑmənˌtɛri
  • 1An expression of opinions or offering of explanations explanations about an event or situation.

    an editorial commentary
    narrative overlaid with commentary
    Example sentencesExamples
    • What follow are personal accounts and commentaries by activists about the protests and police actions.
    • Editorials and commentaries deal with the behaviour of rats, the importance of trees, the need to appreciate weather and the role of socks in society.
    • This article is presented as a commentary on just one American university.
    • Who on earth can be bothered writing political commentaries?
    • In the West, a clear distinction is made between news reporting, which is expected to be impartial and unbiased, and commentaries and editorials.
    • We excluded editorials, commentaries, articles for debate and education, narrative reviews, letters, and case reports.
    • Enough already about eyewitness observations, commentaries, editorials and conspiracy theories.
    • As now, users will need to visit the journal's website for related editorials, commentaries, and rapid responses and to print out copies of the article that look like those in the paper journal.
    • Countless numbers of articles, columns and commentaries discussed the content and meaning of the classified material found therein.
    • Editorials or commentaries that are perceived as one-sided are bound to bring requests for equal time or space from opponents.
    • Barking headlines, hard-biting editorials, sharp commentaries, satirical cartoons and investigative exposes are now common features of our media.
    • The change in the government's stance came after a spate of unfavorable newspaper editorials and commentaries.
    • Over the next few weeks, there will be a number of articles, television programs and radio commentaries regarding the problems we are facing with suicide.
    • But you want to do a critical commentary on some issue in popular culture today?
    • Well, for a start, all three are frequently trotted out in newspaper commentaries describing the victims of the latest investment scam.
    • He has added an anti-Scottish meanness in his commentary and editorials.
    • What can one say about this dismal situation in an editorial or a commentary?
    • These fears have been reflected in several newspaper editorials and commentaries urging the government to reconsider.
    • The aim, of course, was to ensure that the angle of every report, quite apart from the editorials and commentaries, should reinforce the papers' political agendas.
    • In the Herald today is an opinion commentary from the very left-leaning Jones.
    Synonyms
    essay, dissertation, treatise, paper, discourse, tract, monograph, study, article
    1. 1.1 A descriptive spoken account (especially on a broadcast) of an event or performance as it happens.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Sometimes my Dad would get annoyed with the cricket commentary on TV, turn down the sound and listen to the commentary on the radio.
      • During your flight your captain will give you a full commentary, describing the scene below.
      • There's also the chance to access a selection of live audio commentaries of football and rugby matches, from BBC radio teams in England and Scotland.
      • It's a fast-paced mix of news, analysis, live commentaries and special reports.
      • Last season the station covered an amazing 1,336 games with live commentaries at 405 games, more than any other broadcaster ever.
      • Live Cup commentaries from every round of the Cup on Radio Scotland and a significant number of ties streamed live on the Internet.
      • And that is why his television commentary this summer at both Wimbledon and the US Open was given favourable reviews.
      • In those days, when we had no tickets for the game and no TV, we'd stand by the stadium and listen to the radio commentary.
      • John Motson has been a television football commentator for the BBC since 1971, and has recently started doing radio match commentaries for BBC Radio Five Live.
      • The voice-over commentary covers his thoughts, a technique that can be dangerously indulgent.
      • Green has been providing his unique commentaries for Radio Five since it started in 1994 and will continue to do so.
      • Often, after the programme, he would fly to the continent to do the live commentary on a Sunday afternoon international.
      • He was probably the first man to broadcast ball-by-ball commentary on English radio, in 1927.
      • Thursday was the first day in-house ear pieces were on sale, allowing fans to hear the television commentary.
      • Kuttner also does occasional commentaries for National Public Radio.
      • Gone are the days when we waited for the morning newspaper to fill in crucial gaps in the radio commentary of a cricket match.
      • For many years Radio Cambridgeshire has been the only radio station to provide live commentary of every home and away game.
      • The commentary team went crazy for the second and third Mexico goals.
      • He will also present other sports programmes for BBC London, fitting them into his schedule of commentaries for BBC Radio Five Live.
      • A small onstage screen will give a running commentary in English.
      Synonyms
      narration, description, account, report, review, analysis
    2. 1.2 A set of explanatory or critical notes on a text.
      a commentary on the Old Testament
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Javanese system comprises thousands of Islamic boarding schools that have been set up to teach the core texts of Islam, along with critiques and commentaries on those texts.
      • If only Brian Herbert would follow the example of Christopher Tolkien and publish the notes along with other commentaries.
      • The broad crucial overviews in Section I are followed in Section II by commentaries on individual texts or authors.
      • His stunning new commentary on Galatians is already making the same impact on Pauline studies.
      • A competent catalogue with the usual high-quality illustrations and commentary accompanies the exhibition.
      • National made very specific comments in its minority report in the commentary on the bill.
      • Hoekstra, who was not involved in the new study, wrote an accompanying commentary in Nature.
      • Along the way Gray offers idiosyncratic commentaries on Chaucer, Pepys, Gibbon, Milton and Burns.
      • An editorial commentary by Levine and colleagues accompanies this article.
      • The commentary to both texts notes that significant harm need not be substantial but must be ‘more than trivial’.
      • Moreover, the author's commentary on events is sensible, and the work is well illustrated and attractive.
      • However she assisted her father Theon of Alexandria in writing his eleven part commentary on Ptolemy's Almagest.
      • Here, in a 1535 commentary on Galatians 3: 13, Luther explains what took place on the Cross.
      • A good commentary on the text will raise these buried questions to consciousness.
      • The commentary explains how all can live in Krishna consciousness even while performing the daily duties.
      • The commentary in the book describing the Ashmolean Museum Collection states that: Figure 4 above shows a bronze buckle from the Caucasus Mountains, from the Old Hellenic Period, found in Georgia.
      • We begin with a text commentary from director Ruzowitsky and lead actor Barnaby Metschurat.
      • Each is accompanied by the author's informative commentary which ranges from Roman roads to last century's shopkeepers.
      • Today this commentary appears on the " inner " margin of virtually every Talmudic page.
      • The abbreviated text could be in Latin or Anglo-Norman French and was usually accompanied by a commentary.
      Synonyms
      explanation, explication, elucidation, exegesis, examination, interpretation, analysis

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin commentarius, commentarium (adjective, used as a noun), from commentari, frequentative of comminisci ‘devise’.

 
 
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