diction
diction 英 [ˈdɪkʃn] 美 [ˈdɪkʃən]
n. 用语；措词
名词复数:dictions
- Diction is the way you talk, that is, the way you enunciate or pronounce your words, and the words and phrases you choose to use.
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- n. 用语；措词
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1. The effectiveness of your speech depends on your diction.
你的演说效果在于你的用字是否得当。
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2. It is needless to expatiate on its poetic merit or felicity of diction.
阐述这首诗的优点或是措辞的得当，没有这个必要。
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3. But he serenades them with Chinese songs from school, with flawless schoolteacher diction and a gusto that would startle his actual teachers if they heard it.
不过他会以完美的发音和足以让他的老师都吓一跳的热情给他的外祖父母唱学校里学会的中文歌曲。
- diction (n.) 1540s, "a word;" 1580s, "expression of ideas in words," from Late Latin dictionem (nominative dictio) "a saying, expression, word," noun of action from dic-, past participle stem of Latin dicere "speak, tell, say" (source of French dire "to say"), related to dicare "proclaim, dedicate," from PIE root *deik- "to show," also "pronounce solemnly."
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