| 单词 | voluble |
| 释义 | voluble (once / 1862 pages) adj Voluble describes someone who talks a lot, like your aunt who can’t stop telling you to cut your hair or a political candidate who makes twenty speeches on the day before the election. Have you ever found it especially hard to interrupt someone who talks a lot when he or she gets on a roll? If so, it won’t surprise you that the adjective voluble traces back to the Latin word volvere, meaning “to roll.” The word voluble describes talking continuously, fluently, at great length, in a steady flow. You’ll know it when you meet voluble talkers: they just keep rolling on and on. WORD FAMILYvoluble: volubility, volubly+/volubility: volubilities USAGE EXAMPLESBut a government representative from India — which itself operates a pesticide manufacturer — was more voluble in defending atrazine than a Syngenta lobbyist who was present. New York Times(Dec 20, 2016) When speaking, the USC cornerback is typically energetic and voluble, squeezing more words into each minute than any of his teammates do. Los Angeles Times(Dec 14, 2016) He was as “voluble” as he was “insecure,” stated Cosmopolitan. Salon(Dec 13, 2016) adj marked by a ready flow of speech she is an extremely voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not conversations Syn|Ant communicative, communicatory able or tending to communicate prolixtediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length chatty, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, talkyfull of trivial conversation taciturn habitually reserved and uncommunicative incommunicative, uncommunicativenot inclined to talk or give information or express opinions conciseexpressing much in few words buttoned-up(British colloquial) not inclined to conversation reticent, untalkativetemperamentally disinclined to talk |
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