A soliloquy is a speech in a play in which a character, usually alone on stage, speaks their thoughts out loud so the audience can hear them. The other characters are not meant to hear it.

A soliloquy soliloquy is a speech in a play是舞台劇裡的一段台詞, in which a character, usually alone on stage通常是角色獨自站在台上, speaks their thoughts out loud把心裡的想法大聲說出來 so the audience can hear them讓觀眾聽得到。The other characters其他角色 are not meant to hear it照理說是聽不到的。

It is the theatre's oldest way of letting us inside a person's head — Shakespeare's plays are full of them, and 'To be, or not to be' is the most famous in English. The plural is 'soliloquies'.

It它 is the theatre's oldest way of letting us inside a person's head是戲劇裡最古老、讓我們進入一個人內心的方式 — Shakespeare's plays are full of them莎士比亞的劇本裡到處都是, and 'To be, or not to be' is the most famous in English而「To be, or not to be」是英語裡最有名的一段。The plural複數 is 'soliloquies'是「soliloquies」。

Because a soliloquy is private thinking made audible, playwrights use it for the moments a character cannot say to anyone else: doubt, guilt, a plan they are ashamed of.

Because a soliloquy is private thinking made audible因為soliloquy是把私密的想法變成聽得見的聲音, playwrights use it for the moments a character cannot say to anyone else劇作家會用它來呈現角色沒辦法跟任何人說的那些時刻: doubt, guilt, a plan they are ashamed of懷疑、罪惡感、一個他們自己都覺得丟臉的計畫。

Outside literature class, the word is stretched a little to mean any long stretch of talk where somebody is really speaking to themselves — a driver muttering at traffic, a writer thinking aloud on the page. It is a formal, written word; if you just mean talking to yourself, say 'talking to himself'.

Outside literature class在文學課以外, the word is stretched a little to mean any long stretch of talk這個字被延伸用來指任何一大段話 where somebody is really speaking to themselves是真的在自言自語的 — a driver muttering at traffic開車的人對著車流嘀咕, a writer thinking aloud on the page作家在紙上把想法唸出來。It它 is a formal, written word是個正式、書面的字; if you just mean talking to yourself如果你只是要說「自言自語」, say 'talking to himself'就說「talking to himself」。