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To expound is to explain something at length — to lay an idea out, piece by piece, until the other person has the whole picture. Teachers, priests, and writers expound; friends in a café usually just explain or go on about. It is a formal, slightly old-fashioned verb. You expound a theory, a view, a text. People also say expound on a topic, especially in American English, though the older pattern is just expound plus the thing itself, with no on. It does not mean “make bigger” — that is expand — and it is heavier than “tell.” If someone expounds, they are not in a hurry, and they want you to follow the reasoning, not just the headline.
組成From Middle English expounden, from Old French espondre, from Latin exponere (“to set out”). Doublet of expone and expose.
同家族的字
- exposedoublet: both from Latin exponere
- expositionsame Latin exponere — a full “setting out” of an idea
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expoundverb/ɪkˈspaʊnd/
- 1
formalTo set out the meaning of; to explain or discuss at length.
- Today I'll expound at length the theory propounded last week.
- “[…] Some day, when you are tired of London, come down to Treadley, and expound to me your philosophy of pleasure over some admirable Burgundy I am fortunate enough to possess.”
- 2
formalTo make a statement, especially at length.
- He expounded often on the dangers of the imperial presidency.
- Fowler was also interested in metallurgy and the use of new materials that could withstand greater stresses, something he expounded on when giving his presidential address to the new Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1927.
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