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    To soliloquize is to speak your thoughts aloud while alone — or as if alone, with no real listener. It is the verb belonging to 'soliloquy', the famous kind of speech in a play (Hamlet's 'To be, or not to be'). In the theatre sense, an actor soliloquizes when the character stands on stage talking to himself so the audience can hear what is inside his head. Outside the theatre, people use it half-jokingly for anyone who talks on and on without checking whether others are listening: 'Grandpa soliloquized about the old market for twenty minutes.' That use carries a light complaint — the speech is long, private, and one-way. It is an intransitive verb, so nothing follows it directly; you soliloquize ABOUT something or ON something. The British spelling is 'soliloquise'. This is a rare, word; in ordinary speech you would say 'talk to himself' or 'go on and on'.

    自言自語地長篇獨白(戲劇上指「講獨白」;日常用來說某人自顧自講個沒完,帶點調侃)

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組成soliloquy + -ize. '-ize' is the ending that turns a noun into a verb meaning 'to do this thing': apology → apologize, memory → memorize. Inside soliloquy sit Latin sōlus 'alone' and loquī 'to speak' — 'alone-speaking'.

同家族的字

  • soliloquythe noun this verb is made from
  • solofrom the same Latin sōlus, alone
  • eloquentfrom Latin loquī, to speak — speaking well
  • ventriloquistfrom loquī plus venter 'belly' — the 'belly-speaker' who throws their voice

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。

soliloquizeverb

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    broadcastingdramadramaturgyOf a character: to perform a soliloquy, to talk to oneself.

    • "Now, I am quite sure that our beautiful hostess has been making an assignation," soliloquised Charles, who, for want of something better to do, had been watching the various actions of the group in the principal chamber in the castle, […]
    • I rubbed my hands with delight over my happy notion, and soliloquised aloud, "What a joy there is in going about doing good actions."
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    To think to oneself.

    • Far up in the mountains he heard a lion roar. How much safer one was, he soliloquized, in the haunts of wild beasts than in the haunts of men.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。