You can picture speech as the act of making words come out of your mouth. From that one root grow two directions: the raw power to do it (being able to speak at all), and the things produced by doing it — words said aloud rather than written, a person's particular way of saying them, and a whole prepared talk delivered to others.
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原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
speechnoun/spiːt͡ʃ/
- 1
The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.
- He had a bad speech impediment.
- After the accident she lost her speech.
- 2
The act of speaking, a certain style of it.
- It was hard to hear his speech over the noise.
- Her speech was soft and lilting.
- 3
A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.
- The candidate made some ambitious promises in his campaign speech.
- The constant design of both these orators, in all their speeches, was to drive some one particular point.
- 4
A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a language.
- For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech, and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel.
- The speche of Englande is a base speche to other noble speches, as Italion, Castylion, and Frenche; howbeit the speche of Englande of late dayes is amended.
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Language used orally, rather than in writing.
- This word is mostly used in speech.
- 6
grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsAn utterance that is quoted; see direct speech, reported speech
- 7
Public talk, news, gossip, rumour.
- The duke[…]did of me demand / What was the speech among the Londoners / Concerning the French journey.
speechverb/spiːt͡ʃ/
- 1
To make (a speech); to harangue.
- I'll speech against peace while Dismal's my name, / And be a true whig, while I'm Not-in-game.
- So to Speeching he did go, / And like a Man of Senſe, / He certainly ſaid Ay or No,
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