| 词组 | orate |
| 释义 | orate Many commentators have noted, and our evidence confirms, that this back-formation from the noun oration is usually used in a humorous or disparaging way to describe impassioned or pompous speech: • ... go around orating about Pure Southern Womanhood and making big talk that Atlanta, Georgia, or the State of Kentucky has the most beautiful women in the world —James Street, Holiday, October 1954 • An old man beside me was orating as to how anyone who lives to be 60 in New York deserves a medal — Alan Rich, New York, 26 Feb. 1973 Its straightforward use in the sense, "to make a speech," is rare, except in writing about the past, but it can be found: • ... the respected literary critic and staunch apologist for nationalism orating at the Federation of Ontario Naturalists —Valerie Miner, Chatelaine, June'1975 |
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