address，speech，lecture，oration，report，talk
這些名詞均含“演講，講話，報告”之意。
address 正式用詞，指在莊嚴隆重的場合作精心準備的演講或正式演説。
speech 普通用詞，指一般的 本站…。發言或講話，可以是事先準備的，也可以是即席的。
lecture 側重帶學術性的演講。
oration 常指在特殊場合，辭藻華麗，形式莊重，旨在激發聽眾感情的正式演説。
report 一般是指下級給上級或負責人給委託機關的書面或口頭報告。
talk 常用詞，強調非正式講話，講話方式一般較為自由。
He was too distressed to talk
他傷心得講不出話來。
We talked and laughed a great deal
我們説笑了很久。
Your first step should be to talk to a teacher or school counselor
你第一步應該是去找老師或學校輔導員談談。
She will talk on the issues she cares passionately about including education and nursery care
她將會談一些自己十分感興趣的話題，包括教育和幼兒護理。
Talks between striking railway workers and the Polish government have broken down
罷工的鐵路工人和波蘭政府間舉行的談判已經破裂了。
We're talking to some people about opening an office in London
我們在和一些人討論在倫敦設立辦事處的事兒。
Everyone is talking about him
人人都在議論他。
They'll talk, they'll implicate me.
他們會招供的，他們會把我牽連進去的。
You don't sound like a foreigner talking English
聽你講英語，不像是外國人。
The guests were mostly middle-aged men talking business.
顧客多數是些談正事的中年男子。
You must admit George, you're talking absolute rubbish.
喬治，你得承認你説的全都是廢話。
We're not talking a murder here; we're talking poker machines or gambling — things that are misdemeanors in most states
我們現在討論的不是謀殺，而是撲克機或賭博——這些在多數州只能算輕罪了。
Has much of this actually been tried here? Or is it just talk?
這個多半已經真正嘗試過了嗎？還是僅僅説説而已？
Took us quite a while to get here, didn't it? Talk about Fate moving in a mysterious way!
我們用了很長時間才走到今天這步，是吧？這就叫命運難測啊！
英漢解釋
vt. 説；談話；討論
vi. 談話；説閒話
n. 談話；演講；空談
同義詞
n. lecture，public lecture，talk of the town，talking
v. babble，mouth，speak，spill
反義詞
v. keep one's mouth shut，keep quiet，shut one's mouth
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