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Grandiloquence is a way of talking that piles on long, formal, important-sounding words — not because the idea needs them, but because the speaker wants to sound big. It is the noun: the habit, or the style, of that kind of speech. Teachers, politicians, and show-offs get accused of it. It is a critical word; almost nobody claims it as a good thing. The pieces are Latin: grandis “great” and a root for “speak” (the same family as eloquent). So it is, almost literally, “great-speaking” — though actually the English meaning is not “speaking well”. Eloquent is praise. Grandiloquence is speaking too .
掉書袋、說得文謅謅。不是「口才好」,是為了顯得了不起而把話講得很華麗。
組成From Middle French grandiloquence, from Latin grandiloquentia, from grandiloquus (1580s): grandis “great” + a Latin root for “speak”.
同家族的字
- grandiloquentthe adjective; this is the noun
- eloquentboth have the Latin root for “speak”; eloquent is praise, this is not
- grandfrom Latin grandis “great”
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。
grandiloquencenoun/ɡɹænˈdɪləkwəns/
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Lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing.
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。