核心畫面
Opening your mouth and letting words come out — using your voice to put something into spoken form. From this one act grow: speaking a language, giving a talk, voicing an opinion, talking with someone, and a set of phrases where 'speaking' stands for agreeing, being on speaking terms, or something silently 'saying' a lot.
可以想成：張開嘴，讓話語流出來——用你的聲音把某樣東西化成口說出來。從這一個動作長出：說某種語言、上台演講、表達看法…更多收起
可以想成：張開嘴，讓話語流出來——用你的聲音把某樣東西化成口說出來。從這一個動作長出：說某種語言、上台演講、表達看法、和人交談，還有一串引申：眾人『口徑一致』、兩人還在不在『講話』、以及某樣東西無聲卻『說』了很多。原始詞典資料16 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。
speakverb/spiːk/
- 1
To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
- And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.
- I was so surprised I couldn't speak.
- 2
To have a conversation.
- It's been ages since we've spoken.
- 3
To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
- He spoke of it in his diary.
- Speak to me only with your eyes.
- 4
To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
- This evening I shall speak on the topic of correct English usage.
- 5
To be able to communicate in a language.
- He speaks Mandarin fluently.
- 6
To be able to communicate in a language.
- Even those who did 'speak computer' did so sometimes in a less than fluent way which required a jump to be made from a press-the-right-button stage to having the confidence to experiment.
- 7
To utter.
- And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
- I was so surprised that I couldn't speak a word.
- 8
To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
- Their behaviour to each other speaks the most cordial confidence and happiness.
- There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits.
另外 4 個記錄的用法
- 9
informalTo understand (as though it were a language).
- Sorry, I don't speak idiot.
- So you can program in C. But do you speak C++?
- 10
To produce a sound; to sound.
- Make all our trumpets speak.
- 11
Of a bird, to be able to vocally reproduce words or phrases from a human language.
- Miles tremblingly confessed that it had, but to no purpose; a parrot being able to speak better in three weeks than a brazen head.
- 12
archaicTo address; to accost; to speak to.
- [He will] thee in hope; he will speak thee fair.
- Each village senior paused to scan / And speak the lovely caravan.
speaknoun/spiːk/
- 1
Language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
- corporate speak; IT speak
- We'll go into more depth with all the specs shortly so anyone less well versed in espresso speak will understand what I'm harping on about, but firstly let's just talk about using the machine.
- 2
Speech, conversation.
speaknoun/spiːk/
- 1
dateda low class bar, a speakeasy.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。