The author was advised against the improper use of figures of speech.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

She had no patience for brilliant but irrelevant figures of speech.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

It is a thing of no great difficulty, according to Plutarch, to raise objections against another man's speech, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Criticizing someone's speech is said to be easier than coming up with a better one.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Mr Obama's plan to curb carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions (排放), though necessary, will be far from cost-free, whatever his sunny speeches on the subject might suggest.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

She is fond of telling stories in her speech.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

I'm preparing for the speech contest.

出自-2012年6月听力原文

Practicing for a speech contest

出自-2012年6月听力原文

While Gail Obcamp, an American artist was giving a speech on the art of Japanese brush painting to an audience that included visitors from Japan, she was confused to see that many of her Japanese listeners have their eyes closed.

出自-2011年12月听力原文

What did Obcamp's speech focus on

出自-2011年12月听力原文

Why do Japanese listeners sometimes close their eyes while listening to a speech?

出自-2011年12月听力原文

Informative speeches can save lives.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

But they were definitely surprised and distressed to be referred to as 'he' in your speech.

出自-2010年6月听力原文

"It is a thing of no great difficulty," according to Plutarch," to raise objections against another man's speech, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome."

2015年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

She had no patience for brilliant but irrelevant figures of speech.

2015年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

The roots of his speech, given in March at the roundtable meeting of environment and energy ministers from the G20 group of nations, stretch back to 1972, and the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

President Barack Obama declared in a speech last month to the Center for American Progress.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

But I can never forget the first speech of thanks I did.

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

So what did you say in your speech of thanks?

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

When I arrived, the secretary asked me if I could give the speech of thanks.

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

You are going to give a short speech of thanks for the speaker this evening, aren't you, Bill?

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

And I went into a speech about how hard I worked and the gains I was making.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文

Speech is silver; silence is gold.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet, Turin notes, the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

When he brings his speech to a nice conclusion, Whaley invites the rest of the class to praise him.

2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

When the world was sill populated by hunter-gatherers, small tightly knit groups developed their own patterns of speech independent of each other.

2018年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

How does your reading proceed? Clearly you try to comprehend, in the sense of identifying meanings for individual words and working out relationships between them, drawing on your explicit knowledge of English grammar ( ' , 41) you begin to infer a context for the text, for insta4ce, by making decisions about what kind of speech event is involved: who is making the utterance, to whom, when and where.

出自-2015年考研阅读原文

"There seems to be a predominance of short-term thinking at the expense of long-term investing," said Commissioner Daniel Gallagher of the US Securities and Exchange Commission in speech this week.

2019年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

In a recent speech in Lowa, he dismissed wind power as an unreliable energy source.

2018年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The Internet affords anonymity to its users, a blessing to privacy and freedom of speech.

2011年考研真题（英语二）完形填空 Section Ⅰ

You begin to infer a context for the text, for instance, by making decisions about what kind of speech event is involved: who is making the utterance, to whom, when and where.

2015年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ