expatiate
expatiate
[ɪkˈspeɪʃɪeɪt, ɛk-]
verb
expatiation
noun
语源
[ɪkˈspeɪʃɪeɪt, ɛk-]
verb
- [no obj.]speak or write at length or in detail
细说；详述
she expatiated on working-class novelists.
她详细讲述了工人阶级小说家。
expatiation
noun
语源
- mid 16th cent. (in the sense 'roam freely'): from Latin exspatiari 'move beyond one's usual bounds', from ex- 'out, from' + spatiari 'to walk' (from spatium 'space')
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