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发表于 2009-2-27 02:11:10
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declaim
\di-KLEYM\, verb
to orate; to speak in a loud and emotional manner
vi.
1. 慷慨陈词;朗读
vt.
1. 慷慨激昂地发表(演说等);朗诵
What is the clue to understanding a country rife with despair and disrepair, which nonetheless moved a Mughal emperor to declaim, "If on earth there be paradise of bliss, it is this, it is this, it is this ...?"
~Shashi Tharoor, India: From Midnight to Millennium
The heavies declaim prolix monologues on evil in a godless universe.
~Robert Polito, Trackers, New York Times, March 29, 1998
c 1385, from Latin declamare, from de- intensifying prefix + clamare "to cry, shout". At first in England, spelled declame, but altered under influence of claim.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
~Helen Keller
很多人对什么构成真正的幸福有个错误的观念。真正的幸福不是通过自我满足获得的,它取决于我们对具有价值的目的的忠实。
——海伦·凯勒
What can you swallow that can also swallow you?
Answer:
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