流利誇張的講話、生意的言詞
: a voluble line of often extravagant talk : pitch
- voluble a. 健談的、口若懸河的
- pitch n. 叫賣、推銷
We let the time-share salesman give us his opening spiel, but when he got to the high-pressure sales tactics, we cut him short and made it clear that we were not interested.
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caesura \sih-ZYUR-uh\ noun
【詩行中的】休止
1 : a break in the flow of sound usually in the middle of a line of verse
*2 : break, interruption
3 : a pause marking a rhythmic point of division in a melody
Example sentence:
"Without so much as the caesura of a drawn breath I was first shouting in joy, then screaming in shock." (E.L. Doctorow, World's Fair)
- drawn breath 喘口氣
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