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verb
intransitive verb
to move about freely or at will : wander
to speak or write at length or in detail
expatiating upon the value of the fabric—Thomas Hardy
"详述的行为",1610年代,动作名词,来自于 expatiate。
Latin exspatiatus, past participle of exspatiari to wander, digress, from ex- + spatium space, course
The first known use of expatiate was circa 1552
expendverb
to pay out : spend
expend state funds
use up
expend energy
expectverb
to believe that something will occur and wait for it to happen expect her home soon
expect rain
suppose sense 3, think
who do you expect will win?
to consider reasonable, due, or necessary
expect an honest day's work
to consider obligated
expected you to pay your debts
expatiateverb
to speak or write in a full or lengthy manner
1 Since July 1, 1898, expatiation on the cowardice and lack of skill of the Spanish soldier has ceased to be a profitable literary occupation.
2 And he listened in a silence that might be taken either for awed or bored to Manske's expatiations.
3 However Andy Hayes was not given to digression or to expatiation.
4 “Our shared hope and expatiation is that people on all sides show tolerance, mutual respect and restraint,” Mr. Nixon said.
5 Their narratives are calm, unimpassioned, and straightforward, without expatiation on the greatness of Christ's character and works and the wickedness of his enemies, as is the way of all excited enthusiasts.
6 With wit and elan to spare, Greene expatiates on the intrigue that ensues when David Sparsholt, an engineering student with a fiancée, Connie, and a plan to join the Royal Air Force, arrives at Oxford in 1940.
7 Yet the pastor who had opened the correspondence had filled many pages with expatiations on her zeal after righteousness.
8 The faculty of expatiation is the possession of transcendent supremacy even when such organs are not employed.
9 While no recall is good for an automaker, Toyota’s history of uninterrupted success in the U.S. market had established a very high expatiation for the brand.
10 So far Mr. Hitchcock, who seems perfectly master of Webster's unabridged quarto, and whose flowing style leads him into certain farther expatiations for which we have not room.
11 She went, however, in good time, before Madge could return home; she did not want to hear the outflow of description and expatiation which might be expected.
12 These lectures are as commonplace as expatiations on the importance of cultivating the mind and heart, interspersed with 'hence the necessity,' and 'highly essential,' can mate them.
13 It was an occasion for much enjoyment in the present, with a prospect of considerable expatiation over in the future.
14 The inevitable monotony of the panegyrics on Honorius is relieved by just and brilliant expatiation on the duties of a sovereign.
15 The full charm of the long early letters, with their pleasant expatiations on literary themes can scarcely be sampled without doing violence.
16 the naturalist is known for her willingness to expatiate on any number of issues relating to wildlife and the environment
17 Combining with theory and practice, the article makes a systematical expatiation on the commercial innovation.
从理论和实践的结合上, 对商业创新作了比较系统的阐述.
18 One of the reasons why Dibdin's expatiations among rare and valuable volumes are, after all, so devoid of interest, is, that he occupied himself in a great measure in catering for men with measureless purses.
19 We have heard about such expatiations and hear as well about conflicts triggered around them, but fail to put these conflicts in the perspective that explains them.
20 Ostensibly, further studies are encouraged to expatiate this understanding.
2 详述
detailedly detail specification rehearsal amplification recital recitation particularization recountal expand enlarge dwell dilate descant expatiate perorate particularize retail recount amplify recite rehearse dot i's and cross the t's dot i's and cross t's dot the i's and cross t's enter into details enter into detail go into details go into detail enlarge upon