The politician drew his speech out until everyone was bored.

那名政客的讲话长得大家都厌烦了。

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If you write the speech out word-for-word and then just read it, you will sound very boring.

如果你把讲演稿逐字逐句地写下来，然后照本宣科，你的演讲听起来会很无聊。

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In a rousing speech the minister hit out at racism in the armed forces.

在一次激励人心的讲话中，部长严厉抨击了军中的种族主义。

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He closed his speech with the hope that the nation would come out of the war with greater unity than ever before.

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That is to say that when we think we're telling the truth we're actually using worn-out figures of speech.

也就是说我们认为我们在讲述真理的时候,我们实际上却在使用一些陈腐的修辞手法。

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During his visit to Russia, Mr.Obama is expected to spell out his views on U.S.-Russia relations in a Moscow speech.

VOA: standard.2009.07.06

The rush to get the speech out, the early start (we were queuing for admission before 07:00 w, ith a strict 07:30 GMT cut off) only gave the referendum announcement longer to sink in.

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Though it transcribes all of the speech pulled out of videos from its content partners, it only runs other videos through speech-recognition software when there isn't enough metadata with the files for the search engine to figure out what it contains.

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Mostly, though, the speech laid out the humdrum economies of a man whose ambitions ran to political advancement, not wealth.

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