Harangue



GRE 蓝宝 Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. [贬]长篇演说
• ［英］ n. ［贬］长篇演说 ( a long, scolding speech; tirade)
• ［类］ 反义词: speak temperately ( 有节制地说)
• ［记］ 分割记忆: har看作hard, angue看作argue, hard－argue -> 强硬的辩论 -> 长篇演说

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle French arenge, from Old Italian aringa, from aringare to speak in public, from aringo public assembly, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German hring ring
• Date: circa 1533
• 1. a speech addressed to a public assembly
• 2. a ranting speech or writing
• 3. lecture

II. verb (harangued; haranguing)

• Date: 1640
• intransitive verb
  • to make a harangue ; declaim
• transitive verb
  • to address in a harangue <haranguing me…on the folly of my ways — Jay Jacobs>
• ? haranguer noun

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