| 单词 | soliloquize |
| 释义 | soliloquize (once / 7301 pages) v If you make a speech to yourself in your bathroom mirror, you soliloquize. To soliloquize is to talk at length to yourself. The verb soliloquize comes from the noun soliloquy, which is a speech given by a person who has no audience — or a speech given by a character in a play who is alone on stage. When an actor soliloquizes, she tells the play's audience what she's thinking. Shakespeare's characters often soliloquize — most famously, Hamlet soliloquizes, "To be or not to be?" The word combines the Latin solus, "alone," and loqui, "speak." WORD FAMILYsoliloquize: soliloquized, soliloquizes, soliloquizing+/soliloquise: soliloquised, soliloquises, soliloquising/soliloquy: soliloquies, soliloquise, soliloquize USAGE EXAMPLESThe videos start in relatively innocuous fashion, with Puig soliloquizing to the camera. Los Angeles Times(Aug 09, 2016) Catalabutte, is soliloquizing himself up into a lather of fretful anticipation — all at the same time, all in mime gestures, and all endearingly human. New York Times(Jun 15, 2015) The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World(1932) v talk to oneself Syn|Hyper monologuise, monologuize, soliloquise speak, talk exchange thoughts; talk with |
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