| 单词 | polysyllabic |
| 例句 | So many words were still unknown that when the butcher or the lady at the drugstore said something to me, exotic polysyllabic sounds would bloom in the midst of their sentences. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And when the hitherto mute Lucky is prompted into polysyllabic speech, it comes across as a pyrotechnic explosion of Carroll-style, grown-up gobbledygook. Review: A ‘Waiting for Godot’ as Comically Futile as a Looney Tune 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z I offered to bake from scratch if she would forgo the prepackaged cupcakes with their polysyllabic carcinogens. She’s fat, and I’m not 2012-12-08T00:30:00Z I enjoy the articulate, polysyllabic conversations, the beautiful clothes, gorgeous English countryside, etc etc - and find it all preferable to stupid American crime dramas or sitcoms. ‘Downton Abbey,’ the Good, the Bad and the Forgotten 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z When successfully absorbed into the verbal texture, as here, those dense, polysyllabic words, freighted with Greek or Latin, give pleasure in themselves, and in terms of precise denotation. Poem of the week: The Coloration of Feathers by Ruth Fainlight 2012-02-13T09:34:36Z This included highly wrought confessional lyrics, long polysyllabic song titles, and the conjunction of hard, even thrash-derived sounds like a screamed chorus with much softer instrumental passages. Emo revival: why 2022 was the perfect time to bring the genre back from the dead 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z On “The Mars Volta,” out Sept. 16, the group — long known for its cryptic, polysyllabic lyrics and extended, transmogrifying song structures — has moved in its own eccentric ways toward the openness and concision of pop. The Mars Volta Returns With a Swerve: Its Own Version of Pop 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z He rose to prominence as a performer in 2003 with the song “New Millennium,” which featured his trademark intricately constructed polysyllabic rhymes delivered in densely coded patois — the diametric opposite of mainstream hits. Music: Managing a Brand He Made Himself 2011-06-16T15:19:38Z The exploits of the polysyllabic heroes of the 1821 rebellion against the Ottoman Empire captivated me long before those of the Hardy Boys did. Change Is in the Air at the E. B. White Farm 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The world of medicine provides an emblem for Self's own concerns with language; how polysyllabic pile-ups and esoteric coinings can conceal ideas rather than make them precise, how language is the disease and the diagnosis. The big novels of 2012 2012-07-13T15:00:07Z Wu-Tang Clan never seems to have much stagecraft — just a bunch of guys walking around and shouting their polysyllabic allusions, threats and comedy while the bass thuds. Music Review: Hip-Hop History, Recreated by Those Who Made It 2010-08-29T23:06:00Z He’s from Pittsburgh, and a clear inheritor of New York’s mid-90s to mid-00s golden age, with the polysyllabic internal rhymes to prove it. Review: Mac Miller Releases His First Major-Label Album, “GO:OD AM” 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z These are built on foundations of salt and monosodium glutamate, artificial flavors, artificial colors, polysyllabic ingredients that are difficult to pronounce much less identify. The Improbable Rise of Mississippi Roast 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z The use of polysyllabic rhyme in verse usually signals comedy but not here, or not quite. Poem of the week: Eros Turannos by Edwin Arlington Robinson 2010-05-03T10:13:00Z Its verbal resources are spare, direct, rarely polysyllabic, restrained, intense, never melodramatic, and real-sounding while being obviously literary in intent. Authors choose their favourite short stories 2012-12-21T22:55:14Z Her lines of lyrics are long, fast, polysyllabic, intricately rhymed, packed with convoluted allusions and delivered with melodic inflections — her own extension of the rapping virtuosity of the 1990s, ambitious but never bombastic. On Her Debut Album, Noname Is a Sly Hip-Hop Maverick 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z As a stream on the screen, it allows replays, and that means the chance to double-check Miranda’s polysyllabic wizardry: “A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists/Give me a position, show me where the ammunition is.” Debating ‘Hamilton’ as It Shifts From Stage to Screen 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z And now, led by a polysyllabic little girl with the gift of telekinesis, they’ve turned an insult into a battle cry. | 'Matilda': ?Matilda,? by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London 2012-01-31T11:00:00Z The producer zigs with a dusty funk sample that plucks long-forgotten strings or blows tarnished horns, while the rapper zags with a polysyllabic vocal attack that packs in punchlines and internal rhyme. Rapper Freddie Gibbs heats up the Fillmore Silver Spring with virtuosic craft 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z “In written English, especially when it’s a name that ends in s and it’s a polysyllabic name, you could add the apostrophe s, if you are really a stickler for the rules,” she said. Perspective | I am obsessed with exploring the possessive apostrophe in ‘Bojangles’ 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z The diminutive “Cali” is one of the most commonly used substitutions for the polysyllabic state name. Love it or hate it, the nickname 'Cali' has a surprisingly long history 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Her calm, crisp style contrasts with the erratic messaging and frequent policy shifts of Johnson, whose brand of posh, polysyllabic Englishness grates on many Scots. COVID-19 overshadows independence in key Scottish election 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z He had in mind casual essays like E. B. White’s in The New Yorker, cast in “plain English” with “short sentences,” in contrast to what he called The Times’s “polysyllabic Latinate English.” Russell Baker, Times Columnist and Celebrated Humorist, Dies at 93 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z It grabbed every polysyllabic word and ambient alliteration available and turned it up to 12. The larger-than-life huckster dialogue of Stan Lee 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z But it was fun to hear the announcer pronounce the alternating vowels and consonants of his melodically polysyllabic name. ‘The team to see’: A veteran reporter recalls experiencing a Cubs game in 1945 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Scan the package of a toaster pastry from Glutino, one of the industry’s leading brands, and you’ll see an excruciatingly long list of ingredients with polysyllabic chemical names. Gluten-Free Water? A Fad Without a Grain of Sense 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Welles was at the time in the grip of the semioticians: everything was polyvalent, polysemous, above all polysyllabic. Why Orson Welles lived a life like no other 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z It may not have been nice, but at least it was polysyllabic. Trump-induced nostalgia for the good old days of political debate 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z There’s forcing an acronym, and then there’s forcing a polysyllabic acronym. Today’s best forced acronym is literally FANTASTIC 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z So he stayed in and read self-help books, and later books to improve his vocabulary, before coming home to New York to display his polysyllabic splendor. Martin Brodeur: A New Jersey Devil and New York Icon 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The London mayor gloried in polysyllabic verbal adventures. Boris v Theresa: Speech battle 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Even the sesquipedalian Tom Stoppard, I would argue, is ultimately of this school; he builds his many-splendored, polysyllabic words into towers of Babel that ultimately collapse under the weight of their own inadequacy. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: The Art of Eloquence 2012-05-03T15:07:19Z With impressive fluency, friends, family members and patients started asking me about random medications, the odd syncopations of those invented, polysyllabic pharmaceutical brand names – Viagra, Lipitor — rolling perfectly off their tongues. Well Blog: Using Symptom Checklists to Sell Drugs 2012-01-26T17:18:36Z Such jargony, polysyllabic euphemisms, often using long Latinate words instead of short Anglo-Saxon ones, can quickly become an argot used by slippery-tongued, well-educated insiders to defend their privileges. Euphemisms: Making murder respectable 2011-12-15T16:00:44Z The audience was more numerous than had been expected, some 250, and exceedingly sympathetic, laughing at everything, even whenever I used a polysyllabic word. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z Usually the form of auto-intoxication that is most spoken of is intestinal auto-intoxication, and this combination has for many people a very satisfying polysyllabic length that makes it of special significance. Health Through Will Power 2011-08-18T02:00:20.367Z We again postponed our departure; the conversation grew monosyllabic, our thoughts polysyllabic, and our hearts too full, just as the waning moon on the threshold of its rising appeared to us full also. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z The pedantic race, in their furious Latinisms, bristling with polysyllabic pomposity, deemed themselves fortunate when they could fall upon “dark words,” which our critic aptly describes “catching an ink-horn term by the tail.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The first difference between Chinese and Japanese is that the former is monosyllabic, whilst the latter is polysyllabic. A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues 2011-04-09T02:00:13.677Z Throughout their frank discussions and involved debates there runs a certain polysyllabic flavor that is characteristically German. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z The spoken language is polysyllabic and harmonious, and possesses conjugations, tenses, cases, &c., to facilitate its perspicuity, and increase its variety of expressions. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z Lastly are constructed polysyllabic words, formed by a combination into one word of two or more of the monosyllabic terms. Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race 2011-02-06T03:00:56.253Z All these are modern terms, as modern as those for a horse, a sheep, or a hog, and, like the latter, are descriptive and polysyllabic. Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 of 2 Indian Tales and Legends 2011-02-04T03:00:18.247Z The explosive was to be a mixture of TNT and a polysyllabic compound, everything about which was highly confidential and restricted. Triplanetary At other times there is a tendency to ponderous and polysyllabic phrases, tempting the unwary critic to characterize them in words as long. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 He had come over with her one evening and paid an extremely formal call, presenting his card, which bore the words "Public Debt" in one corner below his polysyllabic name. Command I shall commence these examples with the Chinese pronouns, most of which are absolutely identical with those of the polysyllabic languages. Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race 2011-02-06T03:00:56.253Z Yet if it were to be performed The Morning Post would probably dismiss it with a few polysyllabic platitudes and The Times affect ignorance of what it was all about! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 23, 1920 "I don't think the demo-demo-demo" But before Purvis had finished his polysyllabic word, the company had time to make their farewell speeches and depart. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life He alluded to tyrannical obstinacy—unimaginative autocracy—intolerable domination—and other polysyllabic enormities. Captain Macedoine's Daughter The Weak Declension of adjectives, whether monosyllabic or polysyllabic, does not differ from the Weak Declension of nouns, except that -ena of the genitive plural is usually replaced by -ra of the strong adjectives. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary For this reason he constantly denounced Johnsonese with its polysyllabic Latin words which reduced language to abstract generalization. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature He was the possessor of a polysyllabic name—a name sprinkled with k's, s's and z's, with a scarcity of vowels—a name that we could not pronounce, much less remember. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" Swinburne's polysyllabic rage showed the force of the current he was trying to stem. Whitman A Study He departed from my view, a perplexing and polysyllabic problem, claiming for himself a useless and preposterous purity. Captain Macedoine's Daughter The present and past participles, when inflected and not as weak adjectives, may be classed with the polysyllabic adjectives, their inflection being the same. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary Between his German and Italian fellow artists and his polysyllabic Dutch sponsors, Thayer's name stood out in all the aggressiveness of Puritan simplicity. The Dominant Strain In conversation make use of long words as little as possible, and wherever a short and easily understood one is suitable to express your meaning, choose it in preference to one of polysyllabic proportions. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society His stature grew, his eloquence poured forth, polysyllabic. Ghetto Comedies In polysyllables or polysyllabic combinations, when the chief accent was on the third syllable, the second syllable, if long, could be shortened, provided the first syllable were short. The Student's Companion to Latin Authors In order to fit it to the Chinese ideographs for literary purposes, it was being deprived of its mellifluous polysyllabic character and reduced to monosyllabic terseness. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era He spoke in such a round, full voice that his shortest words carried a sort of polysyllabic weight. The Hero From Fort William, at the head of Lake Superior, the little expedition entered a river with a polysyllabic name, which leads farther on, to the "Far West." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 They are Episcopalians or Presbyterians or some other correspondingly polysyllabic thing, as the case may be. Emmy Lou Her Book and Heart The word 'testament' in the first sentence seemed to make this certain, and the sentence or two that followed had a polysyllabic vagueness which by habit she connected with the offices of religion. Shining Ferry She took the whole pedigree to be a polysyllabic name. Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada He usually made these chaotic exclamations after reading through several pages of very neat manuscript in which the sentences were long and involved, and in which were employed polysyllabic adjectives of a poetic connotation. Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life An analogous case to this distributed stress but with monosyllables instead of polysyllabic words is the familiar line in Lycidas— The hungry sheep look up and are not fed. The Principles of English Versification And it was useless to argue the matter—nay it was folly, for he would immediately become polysyllabic and talk one down. The Bibliotaph and Other People The surgeon bent anxiously over that grotesque but frightened head; soothing, polysyllabic German crooning from his bearded lips. Spacehounds of IPC Thus run the beautiful, stately hexameters, which, whatever cavilling critics may say, are delightfully adapted for epic narrative in any fairly polysyllabic language. Essays on Scandinavian Literature In the following pages I have eschewed all mystifying polysyllabic verbiage, and as Mark Twain once said, have “confined myself to a categorical statement of facts unincumbered by an obscuring accumulation of metaphor and allegory.” The Head Voice and Other Problems Practical Talks on Singing It contained about a hundred polysyllabic African words. Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z The latter polysyllabic person was a despised, apologetic, rangy, black-and-white mongrel hound said to have belonged somewhere to a man named Briggs. The Killer It is therefore a matter for unfeigned rejoicing to find that they are not only alive but rampant, with all their old splendid command of polysyllabic periphrasis. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20 Originally polysyllabic, the Chinese language later assumed a monosyllabic, isolating, uninflected form, grammatical relations being indicated by position. Myths and Legends of China The unpronounceable Slavic combinations of consonants and polysyllabic Jewish patronymics are plentiful, while here and there an Italian name makes its appearance. Our Foreigners A Chronicle of Americans in the Making Mr. Moseley had arrived with arguments and reasons and platitudes, all expressed in a polysyllabic monotone. Sandy A rough test for concreteness is your vocabulary: if your words are mostly Anglo-Saxon you will usually be talking about concrete things; if it is Latinate and polysyllabic it is probably abstract and general. The Making of Arguments "Oh, yes, Uncle WILLIAM!" said SARAH, pausing to wipe her patient little nose; "Our dear Papa is always so pleasant and polysyllabic on these subjects." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 7, 1891 English has long been striving for the completely unified, unanalyzed word, regardless of whether it is monosyllabic or polysyllabic. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech His pleasantry does not proceed from keen and well-supported irony; just, but unexpected comparisons; but depends, for effect, chiefly upon strange polysyllabic epithets, and the endless enumeration of minute circumstances. Famous Reviews There seems to be something cumbrous and stately in the utterance of their long polysyllabic words, as if they could not readily be brought down to the minute distinctions of every day family conversation. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers And by the way, I met that polysyllabic cowboy again—and I discovered that, on the whole, my estimate was incorrect. Good Indian I have jotted down the very words of their argument, but now it degenerates into a mere noisy wrangle with much polysyllabic scientific jargon upon each side. The Poison Belt In German, however, polysyllabic words strive to analyze themselves into significant elements. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech The Nahuatl is an excessively pliable, polysyllabic and highly synthetic tongue; the Maya is rigid, its words short, of one or two syllables generally, and is scarcely more synthetic than French. Aboriginal American Authors He sets about it with an array of prefix and suffix, and polysyllabic strength, as if he were about to crush a cob-house with a crowbar. 2d. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers "You haven't told me about the polysyllabic young man," she reminded. Good Indian Whenever Tacitus ends a sentence with a polysyllabic word of five syllables he avoids its repetition at the close of the next sentence. Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century Cambodgian is isolating, but, unlike Chinese, it contains many polysyllabic words whose etymological analysis does not matter. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech Like many other Oriental tongues, it was at first purely monosyllabic; but as the Pali or Sanskrit has been liberally engrafted on it, polysyllabic words have been formed. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok It may be objected that my system involves the use of words which, though short, are difficult to understand and might be made more intelligible in polysyllabic language. The Pilgrim's Progress in Words of One Syllable Tell me all about that bunch of nifty lads I see cavorting around the store occasionally—and especially about the polysyllabic gentleman who seems to hang out at the Peaceful Hart ranch. Good Indian Stress coincides with the word-accent of polysyllabic words because the accent is placed on those syllables, usually the root-syllables, which carry the essential meaning. The Principles of Aesthetics Tibetan was highly resistant to the polysyllabic words of Sanskrit because they could not automatically fall into significant syllables, as they should have in order to satisfy the Tibetan feeling for form. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech A word which in itself embodies the most important part of the idea to be conveyed, especially when that idea is an emotional one, may often with advantage be a polysyllabic word. The Philosophy of Style A polysyllabic word, certainly,' said Algernon, looking with a puzzled expression at the laughers behind; and almost imagining it possible that he could have made an error, he repeated, 'Camel-le-o-pard. The Young Step-Mother But our English way is to put the emphasis on the first part of a polysyllabic word. Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria To what inconsequent polysyllabic question of his host did the guest return a monosyllabic negative answer? Ulysses That charming word, the pet of the polysyllabic, was "OF." Hard Cash Bayne seemed staggered by a blow so polysyllabic; and Henry, to finish him, added, "Where there's a multitude, there's a mixture." Put Yourself in His Place The polysyllabic courage, and false alarms on such a scale, completely eclipsed a real pick-pocket, caught by a gipsy's cur and a banker's clerk. The Young Step-Mother Nothing looks more neat and regular than a newspaper, with its parallel columns, its mechanical printing, its detailed facts and figures, its responsible, polysyllabic leading articles. A Miscellany of Men But with all his polysyllabic wallowing, he showed himself keen-minded, pat with authorities, a spruce young graduate among these dingy Rocky Mountain campaigners. The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories I am ignorant of any polysyllabic prefix for it, only knowing it by its trivial and local appellation of the "trumpeter," from the peculiar sound it makes when out of water. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales |
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