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Elocution is the old, careful art of speaking clearly in public: how you stand, how you breathe, how you say each sound, how your voice rises and falls. It is not the same as eloquence, which is about having fine or moving words; elocution is about the delivery — the sound and the control. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, children had elocution lessons, and people recited poems with trained voices and big gestures. Today the word feels a bit old-fashioned and formal. A drama teacher or speech coach might still use it; a teenager would more often say public speaking, pronunciation, or voice training. You still meet it in older books and in the names of old-style speech classes.
演說術;朗誦法(指咬字、聲調、台風,不是口才)
組成From Late Latin ēlocutiō, “a speaking out,” from ē- (out) + the Latin family of loquī (to speak). Doublet of Latin elocutio, which English did not keep as a separate word.
同家族的字
- eloquentshares the Latin speaking-root, but means fine with words, not a trained voice
- locutiona way of saying something; same speaking-root
- elocutionista person who practises or teaches elocution
- elocutionarythe adjective: about elocution
原始詞典資料1 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。
elocutionnoun/ɛləˈkjuːʃən/
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The art of speaking, especially public speaking, with expert control of gesture and voice, diction (articulation and word choice), and usage.
- perfect elocution
- elocution training
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。