talk like a book

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌtɔːk laɪk‿ə ˈbʊk/

動詞

くだけた表現 自動詞

To talk pedantically, or using excessively difficult or literary words. / To talk precisely and with authority.

日本語の意味

本のように堅苦しく、学術的または文学的な言葉遣いで話すこと / 権威があり正確な言い回しで話すこと

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Whenever he gets nervous during meetings, he tends to talk like a book, using long, obscure words that confuse everyone.

彼は会議で緊張すると、いつも小難しい言葉遣いで話し、長くて難解な言葉を使って皆を混乱させることが多い。

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意味（1）

To talk pedantically, or using excessively difficult or literary words.

People ſhould not vvrite as they talk, except in letters (vvhich are but a converſation in vvriting): it is too careleſs. And they neither can nor ought to ſpeak as they vvrite, for this vvould be unnatural. I ſuppose it vvas first intended as a compliment to a perſon to ſay, He talks like a book; but this, vvhich vvas once looked upon as a compliment, and vvas, indeed, a pretty high-ſtrain'd one, has ſerved ſince for one of the diſtinguiſhing marks of a coxcomb.

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意味（2）

To talk precisely and with authority.

You cannot conceive, ladies, hovv good a ſchool that tavern vvas to me. It vvas frequented by a great number of learned men, vvho talked like a book concerning the character of a vvorthy man; of the pleaſure and advantage that, in every condition of life, attended the being juſt, good, and honourable; […]

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talks like a book （ present singular third-person ）

talking like a book （ participle present ）

talked like a book （ participle past ）

talked like a book （ past ）

simile （ informal ）