With every advantage of lungs and elocution, the effect is singularly vapid. 然而,扯着嗓子、扬顿挫地朗诵,其结果却是令听者兴味索然。
His grandfather had been an actor who left the theatre to teach elocution, his father was a teacher who helped deaf-mutes learn how to speak. 他的祖父曾经是个演员,离开舞台后教演说术,他的父亲是一个教严重口吃者说话的老师。
A strange thing, that that part of an orator, which is but superficial, and rather the virtue of a player, should be placed so high, above those other noble parts, of invention, elocution, and the rest: nay almost alone, as if 表情在一位演说家所有的才能中不过是表面的一种,并且是属于优伶的一种长处,然而竟会被抬得这样高,超出那些其他的长技,如独创,口齿清晰等等;不特此也,简直好象这一种表面的才能是唯一无二的,是一切底一切似的,这真是怪事了。
elocution
[ noun ] an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture <noun.communication>
Elocution \El`o*cu"tion\, n. [L. elocutio, fr. eloqui, elocutus, to speak out: cf. F. ['e]locution. See {Eloquent}.] 1. Utterance by speech. [R.]
[Fruit] whose taste . . . Gave elocution to the mute, and taught The tongue not made for speech to speak thy praise. --Milton.
2. Oratorical or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner of speaking or reading in public; as, clear, impressive elocution. ``The elocution of a reader.'' --Whately
3. Suitable and impressive writing or style; eloquent diction. [Obs.]
To express these thoughts with elocution. --Dryden.