20.說話 談話

　　(說話)

　　speak: To use your voice to say words.

　　(說) say: To speak words.

　　(發出聲音) utter: To make sound and say words.

　　drawl: To speak in a slow, prolonged manner.

　　mutter: To express displeasure with compressed lips.

　　rave: To talk in an angry, uncontrolled way.

　　gabble: To talk rapidly, making inarticulate sounds.

　　(談論) remark: To mention it or comment on it.

　　(陳述) state: To say, express or put into words, esp. formally.

　　He stated his view.

　　(講述) narrate: To tell formally in writing or speech or describe

　　something in order with intonation.

　　He narrated his adventure in the forest.

　　(詳述) relate: To tell formally in details, to give an account of.

　　He related his experiences.

　　(講演) address: To say in speech or writing to a person or group.

　　tell: To let people know about something.

　　talk: To say things to someone.

　　converse: To talk formally.

　　The scholars are conversing with each other on

　　linguistics.

　　chat: To talk in a friendly, familiar, informal manner.

　　The two friends sat in a corner and chatted.

　　chatter: To talk continuously rapidly about small things.

　　The schoolgirls went along chattering.

　　whisper: To talk in a low voice.

　　She whispered me not to talk so loudly.

　　murmur: To make a soft sound, esp. to speak or say in a quiet voice.

　　He often murmurs to himself.

　　(閑談) gossip: To talk about the details of other people"s actions

　　and private lives which may not correct or proper.

　　That woman is very fond of gossiping about others.

　　stammer: To speak with pauses and repeated sounds because of excitement, embarrassment.

　　stutter: To speak with pauses and repeated sounds because of

　　inherent speech defect.

　　21.事情,事件

　　(事) thing: An event, a fact, a subject.

　　He talked of many interesting things.

　　(事情) matter: Seth that you have to deal with, something to be discussed, thought over.

　　There are several matters to be dealt with at the meeting.

　　(事務 責任) business: A special duty, something that has to be done.

　　Public business is every one"s business.

　　(事務) affair: An event or set of connected events. (pl) private and personal life.

　　I have many affairs to look after.

　　(事件) event: An important happening. Events such as birthdays and anniversaries are often celebrated.

　　Do you know the chief events of 1986.

　　incident: Not as important as an event. Incidents seldom are celebrated. Sometimes an event becomes an incident after many years have passed.

　　(偶然事件) happening: An occurrence, and sometimes an unusual one.

　　There have been strange happenings here lately.

　　(偶發事件) occurrence: An incident that is usually unexpected and has not been planned ahead of time.

　　Flood is practically an annual occurrence in this district.

　　22.承認

　　admit: To agree to the truth of, usu, something bad.

　　It suggests reluctance or possible objection.

　　He admitted his crime/stealing.

　　(自白 供認) confess: To admit guilt as to a crime or as to a shortcoming, in the sense of making known to others one"s own error or wrong doing.

　　He confessed his fault/doing something wrong.

　　acknowledge: to agree the truth of, recognize the fact or existence of what have said or done, good or bad.

　　It emphasizes openly in a embarrassing or awkward and usually not voluntary way.

　　I acknowledged my signature/mistakes/errors/having been defeated.

　　grant: To admit or to agree something is true.

　　I granted his request/his honesty.

　　take sth/sb for granted.

　　concede: To admit as true, just or proper often unwillingly because of overwhelming evidence.

　　I conceded you that point, but I still think you are wrong.

　　recognize: To accept or acknowledge it.

　　It refers to something about law and diplomacy.

　　The new regime was recognized by China.