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Declamatory describes speech or writing that puts feelings and opinions out very strongly, in the manner of a public speech. The sentences are big. The tone is high. You can almost hear someone pointing a finger. It can be powerful, and it can also feel — as if the writer is on a stage when a quieter voice would do. Reviews use it of political speeches, opinion pieces, and some poetry or drama: “declamatory” often means “this sounds like oratory,” not “this is a calm explanation.” It is a formal, adjective; you will not hear it much in casual chat. It does not mean “related to declaring something official.” The root is , the loud performing of words, not declare.
慷慨激昂的、演說腔的
組成declaim + -atory (the ending that makes an adjective: “of that kind of speaking”).
同家族的字
- declaimthe verb this adjective comes from
- declamationthe noun for the speech or the act
原始詞典資料2 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。
declamatoryadj/dɪˈklæmətɹi/
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Having the quality of a declamation.
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Pretentiously lofty in style; bombastic.
- He is described as having spoken for nearly an hour with great confidence in a highly declamatory tone, and with studied action, impressing all present who had ever heard of Cicero or Hortensius with the belief that he had worked himself up into the notion of being one or both of them for the occasion.
- Behind him an excitable Frenchman was holding forth in declamatory style to a group of astonished residents.
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。