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Hi,
Speak up means speak louder, which someone says if they don't hear what you say the first time.
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| #3 (permalink) Sun Mar 15, 2009 5:19 am What's the speak up means |
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dear alan,
what is the meaning of speak through?? |
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| #4 (permalink) Sun Mar 15, 2009 9:05 am What's the speak up means |
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Hi Durra,
To explain what this means I need to know how you want to use 'speak through' in a sentence.
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| #5 (permalink) Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:12 am What's the speak up means |
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1) Nicole wants to speak through her art.
2) Now listen again and speak along with the teacher.
3) Professor Ken Robinson to speak to arts and education community.
4) Speak up! Tell us what you want!
A question -- does 'speak up' here mean 'break silence'?
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| #6 (permalink) Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:24 am What's the speak up means |
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Hi,
That's not really an example of 'speak through' in a sentence because 'through her art' is a separate preposition phrase. I would suggest that 'speak through' as a sort of phrasal verb could be likened to 'read through', which means read from beginning to end. In that sense 'speak through' could possibly be used by an actor to mean read out the lines in a play (a particular role) from start to finish.
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| #7 (permalink) Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:39 am What's the speak up means |
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Nicole wants to speak through her art.
--She wants to express herself through her art.
Nicole wants to speak through the dialogues given to her before proceeding with the shooting.
--She is going to read the dialogues out loud.
Is it correct?
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| #8 (permalink) Sun Mar 15, 2009 14:35 pm What does speak up mean? |
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Yes.
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| #11 (permalink) Thu Mar 19, 2009 17:37 pm What does speak up mean? |
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Hi Gray
| Gray wrote: |
| By the way, what idiom I could use here to say that you are attentive to details? |
I suppose that would depend on whether you see the attention to detail in a positive or negative light. If you see attention to detail as unneccessary or excessive, you might say that the person is a nit-picker. If you view someone's attention to detail neutrally, or view it as a necessary, desirable and/or positive thing, you might simply refer to the person as detail-oriented.
You could also say that a person who "doesn't miss a trick" is a person who is always alert and never fails to notice even small things.
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| What does it mean -- 'in a police state'? |
You can find "police state" easily at onelook.com:
http://www.onelook.com/?w=police+state&ls=a
Here is the definition of "police state" from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (I've highlighted some of the words):
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| a political unit characterized by repressive governmental control of political, economic, and social life usually by an arbitrary exercise of power by police and especially secret police in place of regular operation of administrative and judicial organs of the government according to publicly known legal procedures. |
You can also find a write-up of "police state" at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_state
I'd say it's generally dangerous to express opinions that differ from the opinions of those in power in a police state, and that often includes expressing your opinion privately (since secret police will spy on people and invade their privacy).
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Hi Gray,
An expression that you might find appropriate is 'pay attention to detail'.
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| difference between incident and event? | Expression: "He was much more thorough in his studies" |
By the way, what idiom I could use here to say that you are attentive to details?