| 单词 | rant |
| 释义 | rant (once / 2585 pages) vn A rant is an argument that is fueled by passion, not shaped by facts. When the shouting starts on talk radio, or when a blog commenter resorts to ALL CAPS, you're almost certainly encountering a rant. Rant comes from the Dutch ranten, "to talk nonsense." Rave is a close synonym — in fact, "to rant and rave" is a popular expression. When rant is used as a noun, it means something like tirade. The first recorded usage of rant is from the end of the sixteenth century, in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor. By the middle of the turbulent seventeenth century, the name Ranters was used as a catchall pejorative for various groups of radical Christian dissenters. WORD FAMILYrant: ranted, ranter, ranting, rants+/ranter: ranters/ranting: rantings USAGE EXAMPLESHer internal rants often end with that question, evidence that so much of her disdain is prompted by defensiveness. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Rant to managers who never work on holidays or acknowledge those on their staff who do. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) But it wasn’t the bad calls that led to a profane rant by Durant after practice on Tuesday. Los Angeles Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1v talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner Syn|Hyper jabber, mouth off, rabbit on, rave, spout mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize express in speech 2n a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion Syn|Hypo|Hyper harangue, ranting screed a long monotonous harangue declamation vehement oratory 3n pompous or pretentious talk or writing Syn|Hyper blah, bombast, claptrap, fustian grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation |
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