a)ALSHOW/BE A SIGN OF literary to show clearly that something happened or exists 表明,說明
Her skin spoke of warm summer days spent in the sun.
她的皮膚表明她是在太陽下度過了溫暖的夏日。
b)no ... to speak of (also none/nothing to speak of)LITTLE/NOT MUCH very little of something or a very small thing 很少;不值一提
There’s been no rain to speak of for several months.
好幾個月都沒怎麽下過雨。
The house had no garden to speak of.
這棟房子沒有像樣的花園。
Examples from the Corpus
no ... to speak of• In all, the unit has a staff of 18 and no budget to speak of.• It had no bones to speak of.• No kin to speak of, except for that rowdybunch in Ireland, of course.• His supple skin had no lines to speak of; he preserved it with variousexpensivecreams and face masks.• No ad campaign, no sales to speak of, no one showed up for readings.• There are no restaurants or motels, no industry to speak of, only deer and wild turkey roaming the surroundingforest.• There were no Republicans to speak of then.• No wind-chill to speak of, to polish us off.