Rhetoric
['retərɪk] or ['rɛtərɪk]
解释:
(noun.) study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking).
(noun.) using language effectively to please or persuade.
编辑:梅齐--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The art of composition; especially, elegant composition in prose.
(n.) Oratory; the art of speaking with propriety, elegance, and force.
(n.) Hence, artificial eloquence; fine language or declamation without conviction or earnest feeling.
(n.) Fig. : The power of persuasion or attraction; that which allures or charms.
手打:波莱特
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Art of composition.[2]. Oratory, elocution, eloquence, science of oratory.[3]. Declamation, artificial eloquence.
恩里科整理
解释:
n. the theory and practice of eloquence whether spoken or written the whole art of using language so as to persuade others: the art of speaking with propriety elegance and force: artificial oratory: declamation.—adj. Rhetor′ical pertaining to rhetoric: oratorical.—adv. Rhetor′ically.—v.i. Rhetor′icāte (obs.) to act the orator.—ns. Rhetoricā′tion (obs.); Rhetori′cian one who teaches the art of rhetoric: an orator.—v.i. Rhet′orise to play the orator.
艾琳编辑
娱乐性解释：
Language in a dress suit.
巴顿整理
例句:
- Germania was deliberately intoxicated, she was systematically kept drunk, with this sort of patriotic rhetoric. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Just at this time, Pierre Abelard, who had already made himself widely famous as a rhetorician, came to found a school of rhetoric in Paris. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Here was begun the copying of manuscripts, and the preparation of compendiums treating of gramma r, dialectic, rhetoric, arithmetic, astronomy, music, and geometry. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Dramatic and lyric poetry, like every other branch of Greek literature, was falling under the power of rhetoric. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Union and force and rhetoric will do much; and if men say that they cannot prevail over the gods, still how do we know that there are gods? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- For many a bomb has exploded into rhetoric. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- To him our schools are also indebted for the method of teaching foreign languages b y declensions, conjugations, vocabularies, formal rhetoric and annotations. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- For here is this nation which sixteen years ago vibrated ecstatically to that magic word Prosperity; to-day statistical rhetoric about size induces little but excessive boredom. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Both, indeed, gave themselves to some science--the Epicureans to physics, the Stoics to logic and rhetoric--but only as a means to an end. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- As the demand increased, the school, both of philosophy and rhetoric, became stationary, first in Athens, and afterwards in several other cities. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
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