9.For two hours he declaimed against England — witty, declamatory, extravagant, bitter, amusing, and noisy; but in substance what he said was not merely commonplace — it was true!
10." Luna, my love, if you should feel any burgeoning talent today—perhaps an unexpected urge to sing opera or to declaims in Mermish—do not repress it! You may have been gifted by the Gernumblies! "
11.She then declaimed the little piece with an attention to punctuation and emphasis, a flexibility of voice and an appropriateness of gesture, very unusual indeed at her age, and which proved she had been carefully trained.
12.They knew not what to make of his rhetorical recitation of his own unpublished ballads — " Faustine" ; the " Four Boards of the Coffin Lid" ; the " Ballad of Burdens" — which he declaimed as though they were books of the Iliad.
他们不知道他对自己未发表民谣——《浮士德》修辞朗诵有什么看法; “棺盖四板”; “Ballad of Burdens”——他朗诵起来就好像它们是《伊利亚特》书一样。机翻