• n. 演講；講話；[語] 語音；演說

構成 speak 的名詞形式，引申諸相關詞義。

speech

speech: [OE] Speech originated as a derivative of the late Old English verb specan, ancestor of modern English speak. It was originally used for the ‘action of speaking’ in general, or for ‘conversation’; the modern application to an ‘address delivered to an audience’ did not emerge until the 16th century.
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speech (n.)

Old English sp?c "act of speaking; power of speaking; manner of speaking; statement, discourse, narrative, formal utterance; language," variant of spr?c, from Proto-Germanic *sprek-, *spek- (cognates: Danish sprog, Old Saxon spraca, Old Frisian spreke, Dutch spraak, Old High German sprahha, German Sprache "speech;" see speak (v.))

The spr- forms were extinct in English by 1200. Meaning "address delivered to an audience" first recorded 1580s.

And I honor the man who is willing to sink
Half his present repute for the freedom to think,
And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak,
Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak,
Caring naught for what vengeance the mob has in store,
Let that mob be the upper ten thousand or lower.

[James Russell Lowell, "A Fable for Critics," 1848]

1. In an emotionally charged speech, he said he was resigning.

在一次煽情的演講中，他說他要辭職。

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2. He is not attempting necessarily to reproduce the cadence of speech.

他不想刻意重復那種講話的語調。

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3. He went even further in his speech to the conference.

他在大會發言中作了更進一步的闡述。

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4. Reagan's speech was met with incredulity in the US.

里根的演講在美國遭到了質疑。

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5. I heard him make a very eloquent speech at that dinner.

在那次晚宴上，我聽到他作了一番非常有說服力的陳詞。

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