| 词组 | harangue, tirade |
| 释义 | harangue, tirade Several commentators, from Evans 1957 forward, have made the following distinctions between these words: harangue réfères to a prolonged and vehement speech, not necessarily hostile, addressed to a group or at least to more than one person; tirade refers always to a hostile speech, one that may be addressed to any number of people, including just one. Our evidence does show that not all harangues are hostile, but it gives no support to the notion that they require an audience of more than one: • That lady was still haranguing the girl —Ford Madox Ford, The Last Post, 1928 • ... said in chilling, ominous tones which ..., indicating an endless harangue, made him want to get out of there: "There are things that I can never forgive you for." —William Styron, Lie Down in Darkness, 1951 As for tirade, it once could be used like harangue to describe vehement speech without necessary implications of hostility: • She listened with a melancholy smile to her guide's tirade in praise of liberty —Sir Walter Scott, Quentin Durward, 1823 (OED) But it does now seem always to imply a violently abusive tone: • ... erupts into an hysterical tirade that betrays all her past misery —Elaine Louise Lawrence, LIT, Spring 1966 • ... bursts out in a tirade against all womankind — Harold McCurdy, Psychology Today, April 1968 |
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