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单词 soapbox
释义 soapbox
I. \ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun
1.
 a. : a small box or receptacle designed to hold a bar of soap
 b. : a packing box used for shipping soap
2. : an improvised platform used by a self-appointed, spontaneous, or informal orator
 < soapboxes were carried openly into the classsroom and mounted by the orators — Heywood Broun >
 < need no encouragement to leap on your soapbox to tell it to the world — Norris Harkness >
 < novels are novels and rarely handy soapboxes — Robert Carson >
II. adjective
1. : shaped like a soapbox
 < architects of skyscrapers who found their soapbox forms imposed by zoning laws — W.E.Cox >
2. : of, relating to, or delivered from a soapbox
 < soapbox oratory >
 < distrustful of the whole pattern of soapbox politics — Leslie Rees >
 < the park is the orating ground of the city's soapbox evangels — American Guide Series: Oregon >
III. intransitive verb
(-ed/-ing/-es)
: to indulge in soapbox oratory
 < girls who soapboxed for equal rights — Marybeth Weinstein >
 < joined picket lines and soapboxed at breadlines — Time >
soap·box·er noun
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