The speech was carefully phrased...是什么意思？

The speech was carefully phrased...

该演讲措词严谨。

the

art. 指已提到的人（物），指说话人与听者已知的人（物），用于独一无二的事物前，与形容词最高级和序数词连用；

例句
He did have a real knowledge of the country...
他对该国的确知之甚多。

speech

n. 演说，演讲，发言，说话，谈话，说话能力或方式，（乐器的）音，音色，方言，民族语言；

例句
The President declined to deliver the speech himself, on account of a sore throat...
总统因嗓子不适而婉拒了亲自讲话。

was

v. 用来表示某人或某物即主语本身，用来表示某人或某物属于某一群体或有某种性质（ be的过去式 ），在，存在，不受干扰；

例句
There was a terrible sadness in her eyes...
她眼神中流露出深深的悲伤。

carefully

adv. 小心谨慎地，警惕地，仔细地，周密地；

例句
All through lunch he had carefully avoided the subject of the house.
整个午饭期间，他一直在小心翼翼地回避房子的话题。

phrased

vt. 叙述，措词（phrase的过去式与过去分词形式）；

例句
I would have phrased it quite differently...
我本可以把它表述得全然不同。