| 单词 | polysyllable |
| 例句 | The polysyllables fly fast, then go on to accelerate wildly in “Progressive House, Conservative Ligature” by the Los Angeles rapper Rhys Langston, from a coming album called “Grapefruit Radio.” Drake Looks for Love, Repeatedly, and 9 More New Songs 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Apart from keyboard player Chris Pemberton, who hails from Coventry, Grant has multiple Icelandic names to get through, dense with exotic polysyllables. John Grant – review 2013-05-18T15:00:03Z They sing about all sorts of things — science, history, relationships, death — while pulling widely assorted styles and stray polysyllables into their new wave rock. Songs and Laughs for the New Year’s Eve Countdown 2012-12-27T23:59:25Z Virgil’s decorous Latin gets translated into a language which calls for eloquent Latinate polysyllables: the Sibyl flings the guard-dog Cerberus “a dumpling of soporific honey”. Music from the underworld 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z As a result Keaveny seemed at pains to demonstrate his own intellect, throwing in a polysyllable here and there and talking about "dissemination". Rewind radio: Wimbledon; Living in the Memory Room; Shaun Keaveny 2013-07-06T23:05:49Z So the gutturals and polysyllables of the native tongue fairly flew about until evidently, as Mr. D. T. Denny relates, some sort of compromise was effected. Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound 2012-04-03T02:00:30.677Z Lady Ouida,—Many besides yourself have exulted to collect Olympian polysyllables and to sling ink not Wisely but too Well. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z They were supposed to have had a shouting match, off-mike, two weeks ago, with Meredith telling Cosell what to do with his tiresome patronizing and redundant polysyllables. Football and Celebrity in Age of Cosell (Part 3): Mark Ribowsky 2011-11-11T04:54:29Z Elliott delighted in polysyllables, which he did not as yet always handle with entire accuracy. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z The self-announcement, pat as a polysyllable, had a foreseen effect only minimized by the precautionary confidence of Doctor Dollar's manner. The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z Each term thus acquires five distinct meanings, and in fact represents five different words, which were phonetically distinct dissyllables, or even polysyllables in the primitive language. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z "The conquest of the American colonies is to Great Britain an eternal impracticability!" he would thunder, rejoicing in polysyllables. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z Having no polysyllables, the Chinese supply their place by a minute variety in their vowel sounds. Philological Proofs of the Original Unity and Recent Origin of the Human Race 2011-02-06T03:00:56.253Z In final positions in polysyllables we commonly find d and b written but medially th and ph, e.g. didnad, “consolation,” gen. sing, dithnatha. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" The discussion was lively, and had a newspaper reporter who understood Kituta polysyllables been there, I doubt not he would have been as much edified as he would be elsewhere amongst councils. My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave A Story of Central Africa "Answer me, you—" He added a brisk polysyllable in Mixo-Lydian, with the desired effect. The Ego Machine It must be confessed that she loved the sound of long words, and sometimes, as Agnes said, "made an awful mess of polysyllables." The Corner House Girls in a Play How they rehearsed, how they acted, and what the play brought in But it was tough on Chester, havin' that kind of a gang around all the time, clutterin' up the front hall with their extension grips and droppin' polysyllables in the soup. Side-stepping with Shorty Last, the spring is opened, and there pours at once from his pen a world of blatant, hustling polysyllables, and talk so high as, in the old joke, to be positively offensive in hot weather. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers He spoke authoritatively and well, and it is a pity that a better translator is not at my side to assist me in the translation of some of the Kituta polysyllables. My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave A Story of Central Africa It greatly delighted Dot, for she did so love polysyllables. The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended You rolled such a lot of 259 polysyllables over me that a better man than I might have been disheartened.—However, The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) Now and again also these good souls ceased their search for polysyllables, looked at some fair face or pleasant landscape, and came near to a natural description. Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse Jonson has here introduced an invention, which a more recent satirist so happily applied to our modern Lexiphanes, Dr. Johnson, for his immeasurable polysyllables. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors We have more than once heard a man described as "far learned" because of a style in which polysyllables, not always correctly chosen, did duty for thought, as polysyllables often do. The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching The translators of the S. S. have sometimes formed the genitive of feminine polysyllables in this manner, as sionagoige from sionagog, Mark v. Elements of Gaelic Grammar 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 Unluckily, they only looked for it among polysyllables. Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse She sometimes even glanced approvingly at her disciple's flying fingers when she uttered a polysyllable of more than usual distinction. 'Lizbeth of the Dale In Webster’s orations there is a dignity, a sublimity, gained by the use of full-mouthed polysyllables. English: Composition and Literature But it appears more agreeable to the analogy of inflection that such polysyllables should now be written without an e in the genitive. Elements of Gaelic Grammar How the Latin and Greek polysyllables flew about the dining-room, as we recounted our forenoon's or afternoon's discoveries! The Foot-path Way Ignorant people are usually impressed by obscure phrases, the more so, if these are well sprinkled with polysyllables. Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery But the writer tackles his job in a half-hearted manner, using such ponderous polysyllables as "international" and "acquisition." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 29, 1916 The first project was to shorten discourse by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles; because, in reality, all things imaginable are but nouns. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I And the professor ran through all the animal kingdoms and sub-kingdoms very fast, and proved quite conclusively, in a perfect cataract of polysyllables, that fairies didn't belong to any of them. 'That Very Mab' It was necessary to use polysyllables, and plenty of them; and where to find rhymes for such words as "tyranny," "freedom," and "justice," when you had less than two years' acquaintance with English! The Promised Land Harriet always uses her polysyllables correctly, so I am not in the least offended at your comparison of my obscurities with her profundities. Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation He has slain the polysyllable, that huge and slimy centipede which has sprawled over all the valleys of England like the "loathly worm" who was slain by the ancient knight. George Bernard Shaw The English tongue and talent of speech did not merely flower suddenly into the gargantuan polysyllables of the great Elizabethans; it had always been full of the popular Latin of the Middle Ages. The Victorian Age in Literature In the seventeenth century men took considerable liberties with the spelling of their own surnames and very large liberty with English polysyllables—especially with local names. The Composition of Indian Geographical Names Illustrated from the Algonkin Languages No wonder that a large vocabulary is found necessary, when, as in Zulu, "my father," "thy father," "his-or-her-father," are separate polysyllables without any element in common. Anthropology Under her breath she repeated over and over, lest she forget some of its polysyllables, a sentence which was half-incomprehensible to her, yet which was sonorous enough and grandiloquent enough to impress her deeply. Destiny Mr. Punch, once hailed by the D.T. as "the Democritus of Fleet Street," on the strength of his "memorable monosyllabic monition," in turn salutes the immortal protagonist of the purple polysyllable. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-20 Our hero now forgot his learning; his polysyllables were laid aside, and his pedantry utterly abandoned. Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three He unfurled the polysyllables, like a flag; sublimely unaware of having stated a contradiction in terms. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India In polysyllables there was a secondary stress on the alternate vowels. Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin He waded through the first paragraph and well into the second before he mired in a hopeless jumble of unfamiliar polysyllables. The Uphill Climb The formidable polysyllable simply means, "Hatchets rattling inside the baskets of the carpenters." Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before Most of our polysyllables are Roman, and our words of one syllable are very often Teutonic. Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations "I've been performing my ablutions," he said, rolling out the last word with great emphasis and pomposity, for, like many Scotchmen, he had the greatest possible reverence for a sonorous polysyllable. The Firm of Girdlestone Thus 'crisis' lengthens the penultima under the 'apex' rule, while 'critical' has it short under the general rule of polysyllables. Society for Pure English Tract 4 The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin She had met men who ran to polysyllables and pompousness, but she had never known the polysyllables to accompany so simple a manner. Starr, of the Desert His passion for polysyllables was very amusing, and he loved to astonish his hearers by his "sesquipedalian" phraseology. Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography A word of one syllable is called a monosyllable; a word of two syllables, a dissyllable; a word of three syllables, a trissyllable; and a word of four or more syllables, a polysyllable. The Grammar of English Grammars Marked as it is with polysyllables, there are a considerable number of exceptions. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Spite is a little word; but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings, and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language. Nicholas Nickleby The adverse destinies ordained that one evening Mr Wegg's labouring bark became beset by polysyllables, and embarrassed among a perfect archipelago of hard words. Our Mutual Friend The first project was, to shorten discourse, by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because, in reality, all things imaginable are but norms. Gulliver's Travels You rolled such a lot of polysyllables over me that a better man than I might have been disheartened. Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 "The war," he says, "has introduced abundance of polysyllables, which will never be able to live many more campaigns." Among My Books First Series The meaning of the formidable-looking polysyllable, which Egyptian lips found easier than 'Joseph,' is uncertain. Expositions of Holy Scripture When the paternal turnip solemnly points to 10-1/2, G.F.F.F.S. puts her number eights on the mantel, looks reflectively at a sore-eyed kitten, and falls into polysyllables. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 22, August 27, 1870 The German, not less than the Greek, is a polysyllable language. Biographia Literaria Yes, it is a polysyllable' --as, indeed, he had added an unnecessary syllable. The Young Step-Mother The progress made by the children may be stated to have been as follows: on the 16th February, 1844— 14 were able to read polysyllables. Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Complete The progress made by the children may be stated to have been as follows: on the 16th February, 1844-- 14 were able to read polysyllables. Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Volume 02 Over and over I studied the hard names and measures, conned again and again the polysyllables; hoping to be able to arrive some time at an intelligible definition of the terms. How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley Away went his life of shadows—his career of watery polysyllables meandering through the great desert into the Dead Sea. It Is Never Too Late to Mend The sense of the Comic is much blunted by habits of punning and of using humouristic phrase: the trick of employing Johnsonian polysyllables to treat of the infinitely little. Complete Short Works of George Meredith Remarkable also, that, though the punctuation was deplorable, every superb polysyllable was correctly spelled. Such Is Life But the fire of cross-examination melted all his polysyllables into guesswork and hearsay. Hard Cash I confess that, though not subject to such infliction, I very nearly fainted over these ponderous polysyllables! The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries The sense of the Comic is much blunted by habits of punning and of using humouristic phrase: the trick of employing Johnsonian polysyllables to treat of the infinitely little. An Essay on comedy and the uses of the comic spirit Some have thought that the language of Adam consisted altogether of nouns, that they were monosyllables, and that the confusion was occasioned by the introduction of polysyllables. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science |
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