She took elocution lessons before becoming a newsreader .
在成为新闻播音员之前,她学习了演讲课程。
He took elocution lessons to try to make his accent sound more genteel .
他去接受演讲技巧训练,以使他说话的声调听上去更优雅些。
The nervous speaker was criticized for his poor elocution .
那位紧张的演讲者因演讲风度差劲而遭到批评。
I recited in pubs and taught elocution in schools .
我之前在酒吧朗诵,在黉舍教书。
She was graduated with a bachelor of science degree , an upper-class accent acquired by elocution lessons , and an unflagging determination to enter politics .
她以科学学士的身份毕业,带着上流社会的口音,抱着锲而不舍的决心要进入政界。
A self-described ' common colonial ' , who despite a career devoted to elocution had never quite succeeded in shaking off his australian accent , logue seemed strangely out of place among the upper echelons of the british aristocracy given pride of place in the abbey .