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To harangue someone is to talk at them in a loud, angry stream, often for a long time, to criticise them or to push them to agree with you. A harangue is that kind of speech. It is not a calm argument and not a short telling-off. It goes on, and the listener is more trapped than invited. Politicians, coaches, and angry parents all get accused of haranguing. The word is a little formal or ; in speech people might just say he went on and on at us. Though actually, a harangue can be trying to persuade, not only to . The angry length is what makes it a harangue. You can use it as a verb (she harangued the crowd) or as a noun (we sat through a harangue).
長篇大論地訓斥、高聲責罵
組成From French harangue, from Old Italian aringa, from aringare, to speak in public, from aringo, a public assembly. That assembly word is from Gothic hriggs, a ring, like people standing in a ring. Kin to Old High German hring, ring, German Ring. Doublet of range, rank, ring, and rink.
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。
haranguenoun/həˈɹæŋ/
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An impassioned, disputatious public speech.
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A tirade, harsh scolding or rant, whether spoken or written.
- She gave her son a harangue about the dangers of playing in the street.
- The priest took thirty minutes to deliver his harangue on timeliness, making the entire service run late.
harangueverb/həˈɹæŋ/
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To give a forceful and lengthy lecture or criticism to someone.
- The angry motorist leapt from his car to harangue the other driver.
- He has vamp'd an old speech, and the court to their sorrow, / Shall hear him harangue against Prior to morrow.
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To deliver a public address to.
- He is part of the landscape now—out there every Saturday night, haranguing the crowd round the soldiers’ monument, with a bronze Civil War infantryman standing guard over his head to assure him a hearing or his constitutional rights or something.
- It's a tradition that when you harangue the multitudes, you stand on a soapbox.
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。