Could you help me to answer the following questions? Thanks~
1. An audience can tell when a speaker is truly committed, versus someone who's doing something by rote and reciting professional platitudes.
Question: I don't know the meaning of "commit" here, so it made me confused to understand the whole sentence. Could you help me to explain it?

2. It's virtually impossible to pinpoint the exact number of speakers WORKING the lecture circuit in the United States today.
Question: Is it a wrong sentence, because I think it add "in" after the "working". Does the "circuit" mean "field" in this sentence?

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Could you help me to answer the following questions? Thanks~
1. An audience can tell when a speaker is truly committed, versus someone who's doing something by rote and reciting professional platitudes.
Question: I don't know the meaning of "commit" here, so it made me confused to understand the whole sentence. Could you help me to explain it?

2. It's virtually impossible to pinpoint the exact number of speakers WORKING the lecture circuit in the United States today.
Question: Is it a wrong sentence, because I think it add "in" after the "working". Does the "circuit" mean "field" in this sentence?

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1. committed here means someone who really understands and is fervent about the content of the speech. The alternative is a speaker who just reads notes prepared by someone else.

2. working the lecture circuit. That is a correct phrase. Circuit does not mean field. "working the lecture circuit" means someone who is a professional speaker who makes his/her income giving lectures in a variety of locations around the US.

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Hello,

1. commit  means to  pledge or bind  to a course of action he truly wants to do

2. yes   it does ,  no the sentence is not wrong

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