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vi. 发表冗长演说
v.
发表冗长演说；
英英释义
bloviate[ 'bləuvi,eit ]
v.orate verbosely and windily
权威例句
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bloviate (v.)
1857, American English, a Midwestern word for "to talk aimlessly and boastingly; to indulge in 'high falutin'," according to Farmer (1890), who seems to have been the only British lexicographer to notice it. He says it was based on blow (v.) on the model of deviate, etc. It seems to have been felt as outdated slang already by late 19c. ("It was a leasure for him to hear the Doctor talk, or, as it was inelegantly expressed in the phrase of the period, 'bloviate' ...." ["Overland Monthly," San Francisco, 1872, describing a scene from 1860]), but it enjoyed a revival early 1920s during the presidency of Warren G. Harding, who wrote a notoriously ornate and incomprehensible prose (e.e. cummings eulogized him as "The only man, woman or child who wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors") at which time the word took on its connection with political speech; it faded again thereafter, but, with its derivative, bloviation, it enjoyed a revival in the 2000 U.S. election season that continued through the era of blogging.
1. The bicycle reigned supreme as Britain's most popular mode of transport.
当时自行车是英国最流行的交通工具。
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2. Suddenly, the narrator speaks in his most rhetorically elevated mode.
突然，解说员开始用高昂煽情的语调解说起来。
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3. Page Mode shows headers, footers, footnotes and page numbers.
页面模式可以显示页眉、页脚、脚注和页码。
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4. Zooming is not possible while in macro mode.
在微距模式下不可能实现变焦。
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5. a mode of communication
交流方式
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