關鍵字彙：
babble/ blurt out/ cant/ carol/ chant/ garrulous/ glib/ harangue/ impassioned/ loquacious/ monologue/ mumble/ mutter/ prattle/ quip/ rant/ rave/ reticent/ stammer/ stutter/ tirade/ voluble
1. 「愛講話的」、「喋喋不休的」可用garrulous、voluble或loquacious（正式），「不願多談的」、「保持緘默的」叫reticent，「花言巧語的」、「油嘴滑舌的」叫glib：
•The boy tried to avoid meeting the garrulous old lady.
•Tom's a voluble speaker at meetings; he doesn't give much chance to others to say anything.
•The salesman is a voluble speaker, always ready to talk.
•I have never seen such a loquacious man as Mr. Brown.
•She was reticent about the reasons for the quarrel.
•Because the key witness was reticent, the case against the defendant collapsed.
•He is a glib speaker; even the most sensible girl may be drawn toward him.
•The glib liar distorted the truth effortlessly.
2. 演說「熱情洋溢的」、「慷慨激昂的」可用impassioned：
•The regiment commander delivered an impassioned speech to his soldiers.
3. 「如小孩牙牙學語般含糊不清地說話」叫babble，「閒聊」、「瞎扯」可用prattle（非正式）：
•The children were babbling excitedly among themselves.
•He babbled something about his being fired.
•The little girl prattled endlessly about her dolls.
•The boys were prattling on about their girlfriends.
4. 「虛情假意或言不由衷地說」可用cant，「胡言亂語地大聲叫囂」可用rant或rave，欠考慮「脫口說出」原本不想說或不該說的話用blurt out：
•The politician canted democratic reform.
•As we heard him rant on the platform, we could not understand his strange popularity with many people.
•The radical candidate has raved himself hoarse.
•Tom blurted out the news before he considered its effect.
•In her anger, she blurted out the whole story.
5. 「喃喃自語」可用mumble或mutter，「口吃」叫stammer或stutter：
•Speak out; don't mumble your words.
•He muttered a threat.
•She is muttering to herself.
•The frightened child stammered and fell silent.
•Knowing that he had done wrong, the boy stuttered an apology.
6. 「長篇大論的談話」（經常帶著憤怒、指責或控訴的意味）可用harangue或tirade，「妙語」、「俏皮話」叫quip，「自說自話」、「獨白」用monologue：
•In his lengthy harangue, the principal berated the offenders.
•The audience was bored with the empty harangue.
•The councilman lashed out with a vicious tirade of angry protest.
•He is unpopular because he is too free with his quips and sarcastic comments.
•He had a habit of lecturing his friends in monologue.
•The actor gave his views in a dramatic monologue.
7. 「歡唱」可用carol，宗教禮拜時的「唱誦」（例如唱誦佛經）叫chant：
•On the branches the birds caroled their songs of joy.
•She used to carol in the morning when she was happy.
•The pious Buddhist chants his praise of Buddha every day.
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