Speechify

(verb.) make speeches; hold forth, or harangue with a certain degree of formality; 'These ministers speechify on every occasion'.

编辑:鲁弗斯

• I'll speechify these yer niggers, said Sam to himself, now I've got a chance. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Caleb was a powerful man and knew little of any fear except the fear of hurting others and the fear of having to speechify. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I don't think it signifies two straws about the 'Pioneer,' or Ladislaw, or Brooke's speechifying to the Middlemarchers. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Pray pity him: so many English gentlemen make themselves miserable by speechifying on entirely private grounds! 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Thee'd better keep out of sight, with thy speechifying, said Phineas; they're mean scamps. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Be hanged to these civilians, he thought to himself, they are always for arranging and speechifying. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

整理:马提