soliloquize

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. Of a character: to perform a soliloquy, to talk to oneself. intransitive
    — "Now, I am quite sure that our beautiful hostess has been making an assignation," soliloquised Charles, who, for want of something better to do, had been watching the various actions of the group in the principal chamber in the castle, […]
  2. To think to oneself. intransitive
    — Far up in the mountains he heard a lion roar. How much safer one was, he soliloquized, in the haunts of wild beasts than in the haunts of men.

词形变化

soliloquizes present,singular,third-person soliloquizing participle,present soliloquized participle,past soliloquized past soliloquise alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
soliloquizer soliloquizingly
相关词
monologize

词源

Etymology tree
English soliloquy
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English soliloquize
From soliloquy + -ize.
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