speak
- IPA[spiːk]
英式
- say something in order to convey information or to express a feeling；have a conversation
verb: speak, 3rd person present: speaks, gerund or present participle: speaking, past tense: spoke, past participle: spoken
- 釋義
- 片語
動詞
- 1. say something in order to convey information or to express a feeling in his agitation he was unable to speak she refused to speak about the incident 同義詞
- ▪ have a conversation last time we spoke, you told me you couldn't do the job I'll speak to him if he calls 同義詞
- ▪ utter (a word, message, etc.) patients copy words spoken by the therapist 同義詞
- ▪ communicate in or be able to communicate in (a specified language) my mother spoke Russian
- ▪ make a speech or contribute to a debate twenty thousand people attended to hear him speak 同義詞
- 2. (of behaviour, an object, etc.) serve as evidence for something his frame spoke tiredness 同義詞
- ▪ archaic show (someone or something) to be in a particular state or to possess a certain quality she had seen nothing that spoke him of immoral habits
- 3. (of a musical instrument or other object) make a sound when functioning the gun spoke again insufficient air circulates for the pipes to speak
- ▪ (of a hound) bark.
