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To declaim is to speak out loud in a big, way, so that people cannot miss you. You are not just talking; you are performing the talking. The voice goes up, the hands move, and the words sound like a speech, even if you are only in a classroom or on a street corner. Actors and students used to declaim poems and famous speeches as practice — standing up, throwing the lines out, sometimes a bit too much. People still use it when someone is making a loud public point, and often with a small smile: the speaker wants to be seen and heard, and they may care more about the show than about a quiet, careful argument. It is not an everyday kitchen word. You will meet it in books, reviews, and slightly teasing talk about or theatre. It is close to “make a speech,” though actually it can feel more heated and more on-show than a normal speech. Do not mix it with declare. Declare is to say something officially, as a fact or a decision. Declaim is about how the saying sounds.
慷慨陳詞、激昂演說、朗誦（帶表演）
組成From Middle French declamer, from Latin dēclāmō (dē- + clāmō, “to shout or cry out”).
同家族的字
- declamationthe noun: the loud speech, or the act of speaking that way
- declamatorythe adjective: sounding like that kind of speech
- exclaimsame Latin clāmō, “to cry out”
- proclaimsame Latin clāmō, “to cry out”
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
declaimverb/dɪˈkleɪm/
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To recite, e.g., poetry, in a theatrical way; to speak for rhetorical display; to speak pompously, noisily, or theatrically; bemouth; to make an empty speech; to rehearse trite arguments in debate; to rant.
- Grenville seized the opportunity to declaim on the repeal of the stamp act.
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To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking.
- The students declaim twice a week.
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To object to something vociferously; to rail against in speech.
- Their love had gone too far on occasion: praying to those pictures and then sliding to worship those drawings as pagans had once worshiped idols. Many priests declaimed the practice and warned that the people were violating God's first commandment against false idols.
- Declaiming such practices, Baskaran writes: 'The flow of the film would not be affected in the least if song sequences were excised, wholly or partly'
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To disclaim, disavow.
- He now declaimed having intended any thing disrespectful to the Senate in the expression he had used.
- Unless these conditions are fulfilled we declaim responsibility.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。