speak

  • vi. 說話;演講;表明;陳述
  • vt. 講話;發(fā)言;講演

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詞態(tài)變化


第三人稱單數(shù):?speaks;過去式:?spoke;過去分詞:?spoken;現(xiàn)在分詞:?speaking;

中文詞源


speak 說話,交談,發(fā)言,演說

來自古英語 specan,拼寫變體自 sprecan,說話,交談,來自 Proto-Germanic*sprekana,說話,來 自 PIE*sprek,說話,可能來自 PIE*spreg,播灑,散開,展開,詞源同 spark,spread.引申諸相關(guān) 詞義。

英文詞源


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’).

=> speech
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 spr?c, 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 (sp?chten "speak").

Not the primary word for "to speak" in Old English (the "Beowulf" author prefers matelian, from m?tel "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).

雙語例句


1. The Ukrainians speak a Slavonic language similar to Russian.
烏克蘭人所說的那種斯拉夫語系的語言類似于俄語。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Sonia might not speak the English language well, but then who did?
索尼婭的英語也許說得不好,但誰又說得好呢?

來自柯林斯例句

3. Pressure appears to be mounting for conformity in how people speak English.
要求人們講規(guī)范英語的壓力似乎越來越大。

來自柯林斯例句

4. A substantial proportion of the population speak a French-based patois.
人口中有一大部分說以法語為基礎(chǔ)的混合語。

來自柯林斯例句

5. Could I speak to you in private a moment, padre.
可否私下跟您談?wù)劊翈煛?/dd>

來自柯林斯例句

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