Speechifying

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Speechify

(n.) The act of making a speech or speeches.

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• I don't think it signifies two straws about the 'Pioneer,' or Ladislaw, or Brooke's speechifying to the Middlemarchers. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Pray pity him: so many English gentlemen make themselves miserable by speechifying on entirely private grounds! 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Thee'd better keep out of sight, with thy speechifying, said Phineas; they're mean scamps. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Be hanged to these civilians, he thought to himself, they are always for arranging and speechifying. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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