speech简单

True: for more than 80 pre-digital years, linear speech broadcasting brought the gift of serendipity, random enlivening of a car journey or dull manual task.

的确如此：在数字时代之前的80多年里，线性的语言广播带来了意外收获这份礼物，随机地为一次驾车旅行或枯燥的体力活增添了乐趣。

You begin to infer a context for the text, for instance, by making decisions about what kind of speech event is involved: who is making the utterance, to whom, when and where.

你开始推断文本的语境，例如，判断其中涉及何种言语事件：谁在说话，对谁说，在何时何地说。

The Internet affords anonymity to its users, a blessing to privacy and freedom of speech.

互联网为用户提供了匿名性，这对隐私和言论自由来说是一件幸事。

“There seems to be a predominance of short-term thinking at the expense of long-term investing,” said Commissioner Daniel Gallagher of the US Securities and Exchange Commission in a speech this week.

美国证券交易委员会委员丹尼尔·加拉格尔本周在一次演讲中说：“短期思维似乎占据了主导地位，而这是以牺牲长期投资为代价的。”

In a recent speech in Iowa, he dismissed wind power as an unreliable energy source.

在艾奥瓦州最近的一次演讲中，他把风能贬为一种不可靠的能源。

In one study, participants completed a battery of eight tasks, including four that tapped reflective thinking (discerning rules, comprehending vocabulary) and four that tapped intuition and creativity (generating new products or figures of speech).

在一项研究中，参与者完成了一组共八项任务，其中四项调用反思性思维（辨别规则、理解词汇），四项调用直觉和创造力（构想新产品或修辞手法）。