- 1
To shout — loudly, at length, and usually because you are angry or complaining. It is a rare, word, the kind you meet in a nineteenth-century novel or in writing that is being deliberately grand or a little funny about someone's temper. A crowd vociferates against a decision; an angry customer vociferates at the counter. If you use it in ordinary conversation, people will notice, and depending on the room they may find it . The word carries the picture of noise being carried out and thrown at someone, not just a raised voice. In real modern English you would say "shout", "yell", or "rant". Know it so you can read it; the related adjective "vociferous" is far more alive and is the one you will actually see in newspapers.
大聲叫嚷、喧嚷(尤指抗議、抱怨時;書面語、罕用)
組成Latin vōx / vōcis "voice" + ferre "to carry" — literally to carry your voice out at someone.
同家族的字
- vociferousthe adjective from the same Latin word
- voicefrom the same Latin vōx
- transfershares Latin ferre, 'to carry' — to carry across
- vocalfrom the same vōx root
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。
vociferateverb/vəʊˈsɪfəɹeɪt/
- 1
To cry out with vehemence
- Vociferated logic kills me quite, A noisy man is always in the right,
- He then began to vociferate pretty loudly, and at last an old woman, opening an upper casement, asked, Who they were, and what they wanted?
- 2
To utter with a loud voice; to shout out.
- Though he may vociferate the word liberty.
- At the end of this period she found speech. “Of all the damn silly fatheaded things!” she vociferated, if that's the word. [...] something had occurred to wake the fiend that slept in him. “Dahlia!” he ... yes better make it vociferated once more, I'm pretty sure it's the word I want.
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。