英汉词典

speak 基本解释

• vi. 说话；演讲；表明；陈述
• vt. 讲话；发言；讲演

speak 词态变化

speak 中文词源

来自古英语 specan,拼写变体自 sprecan,说话，交谈，来自 Proto-Germanic*sprekana,说话，来 自 PIE*sprek,说话，可能来自 PIE*spreg,播洒，散开，展开，词源同 spark,spread.引申诸相关 词义。

speak 英文词源

speak

speak: [OE] The usual Old English word for ‘speak’ was sprecan, which has close living relatives in German sprechen and Dutch spreken. Specan, the ancestor of modern English speak, did not appear until around the year 1000, but already by the 12th century it had virtually replaced sprecan. It is not known how the r-less form (which has no surviving relatives in other Germanic languages) arose, but it is clearly a secondary development of the r-form.

This seems to be connected with Danish spage ‘crackle’, Lithuanian sprageti ‘crackle’, and Sanskrit sphūrj- ‘crackle, rustle’, suggesting that the English word’s use for ‘utter, say’ arose via an earlier ‘crackle, prattle, babble, chatter’ (English ‘crack on about something’, ‘not what it’s cracked up to be’, and ‘crack a joke’ are remnants of an earlier widespread use of English crack for ‘speak’).
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speak (v.)

Old English specan, variant of sprecan "to speak, utter words; make a speech; hold discourse (with others)" (class V strong verb; past tense spræc, past participle sprecen), from Proto-Germanic *sprek-, *spek- (cognates: Old Saxon sprecan, Old Frisian spreka, Middle Dutch spreken, Old High German sprehhan, German sprechen "to speak," Old Norse spraki "rumor, report"), from PIE root *spreg- (1) "to speak," perhaps identical with PIE root *spreg- (2) "to strew," on notion of speech as a "scattering" of words.

The -r- began to drop out in Late West Saxon and was gone by mid-12c., perhaps from influence of Danish spage "crackle," also used in a slang sense of "speak" (compare crack (v.) in slang senses having to do with speech, such as wisecrack, cracker, all it's cracked up to be). Elsewhere, rare variant forms without -r- are found in Middle Dutch (speken), Old High German (spehhan), dialectal German (spächten "speak").

Not the primary word for "to speak" in Old English (the "Beowulf" author prefers maþelian, from mæþel "assembly, council," from root of metan "to meet;" compare Greek agoreuo "to speak, explain," originally "speak in the assembly," from agora "assembly").

speak (n.)

c. 1300, "talk, speech," from speak (v.). Survived in Scottish English and dialect, but modern use in compounds probably is entirely traceable to Orwell (see Newspeak).

speak 词组搭配

speak 英文释义

1. express in speech;

"She talks a lot of nonsense"

"This depressed patient does not verbalize"

2. exchange thoughts; talk with;

"We often talk business"

"Actions talk louder than words"

3. use language;

"the baby talks already"

"the prisoner won't speak"

"they speak a strange dialect"

4. give a speech to;

"The chairman addressed the board of trustees"

5. make a characteristic or natural sound;

"The drums spoke"

speak 同义词解析

say, speak, state, talk, tell, utter

这些动词均有"说，讲"之意。

say： 最普通常用词，指用语言表达思想，着重所说的内容。

speak： 侧重于说话动作的本身，着重说话的能力而不在内容，可以是长篇大论的演讲，也可以是三言两语的交谈，甚至指简单的开口发声说话。

state： 较正式用词，通常指用明确的语言或文字着重地叙述事实，既强调内容又注重语气。

talk： 普通用词，侧重指与人交谈时的连续说话，可指单方面较长谈话，和speak一样，着重说活动作而不侧重内容。

tell： 普通用词，指把某事告诉或讲述给某人听，口语或书面语均可用。

utter： 着重说话的行为，常指声音的使用，突出用噪子发声。

speak 双语例句

1. The Ukrainians speak a Slavonic language similar to Russian.

乌克兰人所说的那种斯拉夫语系的语言类似于俄语。

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2. Sonia might not speak the English language well, but then who did?

索尼娅的英语也许说得不好，但谁又说得好呢？

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3. Pressure appears to be mounting for conformity in how people speak English.

要求人们讲规范英语的压力似乎越来越大。

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4. A substantial proportion of the population speak a French-based patois.

人口中有一大部分说以法语为基础的混合语。

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5. Could I speak to you in private a moment, padre.

可否私下跟您谈谈，牧师。

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speak 实用场景例句

I've spoken to the manager about it.

那件事我已经和经理谈过了。

牛津词典

The President refused to speak to the waiting journalists.

总统拒绝同等候的记者讲话。

牛津词典

(especially North American English)Can I speak with you for a minute?

我能跟你谈一会儿吗？

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He tried to speak, but for once, his voice had left him...

他想说话，却一时语塞。

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He speaks with a lisp...

他说话口齿不清。

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When speaking to the seminar Mr Franklin spoke of his experience, gained on a recent visit to Trinidad...

在研讨会上发言的时候，富兰克林先生谈到了他最近游览特立尼达的经历。

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He's determined to speak at the Democratic Convention...

他决定在民主党全国代表大会上发言。

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He said it was the job of the Church to speak for the underprivileged...

他说，为贫困群体说话是教会的义务。

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I speak for all 7,000 members of our organization...

我代表本组织的 7,000 名成员发言。

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He doesn't speak English...

他不会讲英语。

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Many of them can speak two or three or more languages.

他们当中许多人都会说两三门语言，有的人甚至更多。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

In the book she speaks of his “social ineptitude” and says he verbally abused her...

她在书中提到他“缺乏社交技能”，并且说他曾经对她出言不逊。

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St Paul speaks of the body as the 'temple of the Holy Spirit'.

圣保罗把身体描述为“圣神的宫殿”。

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He is not speaking to his mother because of her friendship with his ex-wife...

因为母亲和前妻仍旧保持着友好的关系，他便不再和母亲说话。

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The co-stars are still not speaking.

两位联袂主演的明星仍然互不理睬。

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His behaviour spoke of an early maturity...

他的举止流露出早熟的痕迹。

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The length of the car and the high polish of its fittings both spoke of money...

长车身和高档配置无不象征着财富。

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...the figures speak for themselves — low order books, bleak prospects at home and a worsening outlook for exports...

这些数字本身就说明了问题——订单订购量低，国内销售前景惨淡，出口形势日趋恶化。

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The results speak for themselves.

结局不言自明。

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'We're not blaming you,' Kate said. 'Speak for yourself,' Boris muttered.

“我们没有怪你，”凯特说。“也就是你这么想，”鲍里斯嘟囔道。

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She'd probably drop some comment about her 'fiancé' into the conversation so that he'd think she was already spoken for...

她可能会在谈话的时候不着痕迹地对她的“未婚夫”作些评论，这样他便会认为她已经名花有主了。

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By December last year most of the resources had been spoken for.

去年 12 月之前，绝大多数的资源就被预订了。

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They have no weaponry to speak of...

他们没有什么武器值得炫耀。

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'Any fresh developments?' — 'Nothing to speak of.'

“有什么新进展了吗？”——“谈不上什么新进展。”

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This move caused consternation among universities and the government, not to speak of the students affected.

这个举措在大学和政府里造成了恐慌，更不用说受到影响的学生们了。

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Both spoke highly of the Russian president...

双方均盛赞俄罗斯总统。

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It seemed she found it difficult to speak ill of anyone.

她似乎觉得说别人的坏话很难。

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I ought not to tell you but I will, since you're in the family, so to speak...

我本来不该告诉你的，但我还是要这么做，因为好歹你是家里的一员。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The five countries have now all passed, so to speak, their entry test.

可以说，这5个国家现在都已经通过了入门考试。

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For a long time her mother and her grandmother had hardly been on speaking terms.

很久以来，她的母亲和外婆两人之间几乎不怎么说话。

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