I didn't know I'd have to make a speech—I just had to wing it.

我不知道还得讲话，只好想到什么就说点什么。

《牛津词典》

The original speech I had written got boiled down to about ten minutes.

我写的演讲原稿被压缩到了大约十分钟。

《牛津词典》

I heard him make a very eloquent speech at that dinner.

我听他在那次晚餐上做了一次很有说服力的演说。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

The memorial is where the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech.

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The relation between the speech sounds it's like the relation, as I'm saying, between the boy and the birches.

语言韵律和,就像这种关系，像我说的，像孩子和桦树的关系一样。

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The speech is proceeding rather smoothly and, I think, kind of explicably as the Lady defends the sun-clad power of chastity.

我认为演说进行的相当顺利，当女士维护贞节如太阳一般的力量时，听上去是可解释的。

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"I haven't really written a speech, because every time I wrote a speech for the past one of these things, I didn't win, " he began.

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Then I heard about a famous speech the same politician gave that year, but I missed the speech on television.

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Whenever I give a speech, I start out by asking the audience what they think about the U.S. economy.

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