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diction 音标拼音: [d'ɪkʃən] n. 措辞,言语,用语 措辞,言语,用语 diction n 1: the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience [ synonym: { enunciation}, { diction}] 2: the manner in which something is expressed in words; " use concise military verbiage"- G. S. Patton [ synonym: { wording}, { diction}, { phrasing}, { phraseology}, { choice of words}, { verbiage}] Diction \ Dic" tion\, n. [ L. dicto a saying, a word, fr. dicere, dictum, to say; akin to dicare to proclaim, and to E. teach, token: cf. F. diction. See { Teach}, and cf. { Benison}, { Dedicate}, { Index}, { Judge}, { Preach}, { Vengeance}.] Choice of words for the expression of ideas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clearness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression; language; as, the diction of Chaucer' s poems. [ 1913 Webster] His diction blazes up into a sudden explosion of prophetic grandeur. -- De Quincey. Syn: { Diction}, { Style}, { Phraseology}. Usage: Style relates both to language and thought; diction, to language only; phraseology, to the mechanical structure of sentences, or the mode in which they are phrased. The style of Burke was enriched with all the higher graces of composition; his diction was varied and copious; his phraseology, at times, was careless and cumbersome. " Diction is a general term applicable alike to a single sentence or a connected composition. Errors in grammar, false construction, a confused disposition of words, or an improper application of them, constitute bad diction; but the niceties, the elegancies, the peculiarities, and the beauties of composition, which mark the genius and talent of the writer, are what is comprehended under the name of style." -- Crabb. [ 1913 Webster] 25 Moby Thesaurus words for " diction": articulation, delivery, elocution, enunciation, expression, expressiveness, inflection, intonation, language, oratory, parlance, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, presentation, pronunciation, rhetoric, speech, terminology, usage, verbalism, verbiage, vocabulary, wordage, wording
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