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spok·en1 /ˈspəʊkən $ ˈspoʊ-/ verb

x-refthe past participle of speak speak 的過去分詞

spoken2 adjectiveadj

1. spoken English/language etc SLthe form of language that you speak rather than write 英語口語/口語等 → written

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spoken English/language etc• In order of their emergence, they are deferred imitation, symbolic play, drawing, mental imagery, and spoken language.• Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have found that testosterone aids spatial thinking, but interferes with performance of spoken language.• The same arguments apply to children's spoken language.• At 2 years of age, children begin to master spoken language, a system of arbitrary signs.• The purpose was to show that he too used spoken language and that it and Tarvarian were mutually incomprehensible.• Neologisms come and go very quickly in spoken language but tend to be less frequent in writing.• For this reason, spoken language interpreters are specifically trained to reject the effects of their utterance of the target language.• In normal spoken language there are often clear pragmatic constraints on the choice of particular syntactic forms.

2 the spoken word spoken language rather than written language or music 〔相對於書面語言或音樂而言的〕口頭話語

pupils’ understanding of the spoken word

小學生對口頭話語的理解

a spoken-word CD

講讀版光碟

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the spoken word• But the power of X-Clan is not the spoken word.• Hal could do this when necessary, but most of his communication with his shipmates was by means of the spoken word.• Large halls ideal for music can be too reverberant for the spoken word.• Other symptoms of dyslexia can include difficulty in writing, calculating or even understanding the spoken word.• The most important bias of dictionaries is to the written rather than the spoken word.• During secondary education, the use of the spoken word increases.• He showed a little smile, as if only the spoken word might perk his interest.

3 quietly/softly-spoken SPEAK A LANGUAGE British EnglishBrE speaking in a quiet way 說話輕輕的/柔和的

a softly-spoken young man

一個說話溫柔的年輕人

4 be spoken for

a) MARRYif someone is spoken for, they are married or already have a serious relationship with someone 已結婚；有戀人

b) KEEP/STOREif something is spoken for, you cannot buy it because it is being kept for someone else 〔商品〕已預留給〔某人〕

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be spoken for• But all of the money is spoken for.• Contest ends when all tickets are spoken for.• Most of your capital is spoken for, and the creditors are closing in.• Though they were spoken for my benefit, I could not be assumed to share the same norms.• When the words were spoken for the third time, however, the divorce was irrevocable.

→ well-spoken

n THESAURUS

spoken used about the language that people speak rather than write

Spoken English is often less formal than written English.

I can understand classical Arabic but not spoken Arabic.

oral an oral test is one in which you have to speak rather than write. Oral is also used about culture, traditions, and history that are based on spoken English rather than being written down

We had a 15-minute oral exam in German.

Anglo-Saxon stories and poems were part of a largely oral culture.

verbal a verbal agreement, warning, form of communication etc is spoken rather than written down

We had a verbal agreement but no written contract.

The company have received verbal approval to begin the project.

by/through word of mouth by someone telling you about something rather than by reading about it somewhere – used to say how you got some information

He found out about the job by word of mouth.

A lot of our customers hear about us through word of mouth.

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spoken• This book will help you with both spoken and written English.• One very important problem in early learning is caused by the difference between spoken and written language.• One item which is becoming more significant is powers of communication - both spoken and written word.• It would have been the easiest thing in the world for the softly spoken champ to have been intimidated by such surroundings.• In practice, spoken language interpreters are highly educated and highly trained.• The mental lexicon is also involved in the production of written or spoken language.• The human information processing system generally has few problems with spoken or written language, even when the stimulus is noisy or ambiguous.• Idiomatic and spoken phrases tend to differ widely throughout the country.• Even his softly spoken voice suggests a reticence toward off-stage communication.• By the time the talking was over, the hearings had generated over nine million spoken words.

spok·en1 verbspoken2 adjectiveadj →n THESAURUS1

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