(noun.) recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric.
埃弗雷特编辑
双语例句
During her declamation Eustacia held her head erect, and spoke as roughly as she could, feeling pretty secure from observation. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
But when the others had gone, Birkin turned round in bitter declamation, saying: 'It is just the opposite, just the contrary, Hermione. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
This will immediately cut off all loose discourses and declamations, and reduce us to something precise and exact on the present subject. 戴维·休谟.人性论.
There was first one reciter, then two, and then three, and the rest of the company became the chorus to the declamations of these principal actors. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
The city was alarmed with these declamations, and though the war was removed into Africa, the danger seemed to approach nearer Rome than ever. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.