Orator
['ɒrətə] or ['ɔrətɚ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A public speaker; one who delivers an oration; especially, one distinguished for his skill and power as a public speaker; one who is eloquent.
(n.) In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a petitioner.
(n.) A plaintiff, or complainant, in a bill in chancery.
(n.) An officer who is the voice of the university upon all public occasions, who writes, reads, and records all letters of a public nature, presents, with an appropriate address, those persons on whom honorary degrees are to be conferred, and performs other like duties; -- called also public orator.
杰夫編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Public speaker.
珍妮特錄入
解釋/意思:
n. a public speaker: a man of eloquence: a spokesman or advocate:—fem. Or′atress Or′atrix.—v.i. Or′āte to deliver an oration.—adjs. Oratō′rial; Orator′ical pertaining to oratory: becoming an orator.—adv. Orator′ically.—n. Or′atory the art of speaking well or so as to please and persuade esp. publicly: the exercise of eloquence: an apartment or building for private worship: one of various congregations in the R.C. Church esp. the Fathers of the Oratory established by St Philip Neri (1515-95): a religious house of theirs.
伊莱錄入
娱乐性解釋/意思：
Being under the spell of an orator's eloquence, denotes that you will heed the voice of flattery to your own detriment, as you will be persuaded into offering aid to unworthy people. If a young woman falls in love with an orator, it is proof that in her loves she will be affected by outward show.
校對:塔玛拉
例句/造句/用法:
- When he had finished, an Indian orator stood up to thank him. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- He valued the sciences, not on their own account, but as they might subserve the purposes of the orator. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Here, a brief press and confusion near the stage, ended in the man himself standing at the orator's side before the concourse. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Caleb paused here, and perhaps the greatest orator could not have chosen either his pause or his images better for the occasion. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The Roman citizen got his political facts from rumour and the occasional orator. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- You're an orator. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Moses Barraclough; t' tub orator you call him sometimes, I think. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Why didn't you ever take to the stump;--you'd make a famous stump orator! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- He acted every part of an orator, and I could observe many periods of threatenings, and others of promises, pity, and kindness. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Yet when the famous orator made his speech the Grecian experiment was a toy of Kings, and the steam engine had just developed from this toy into a mighty engine in the hands of Watt. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The corner stones of the extension were laid by President Fillmore in 1851, Daniel Webster being the orator of the occasion, and the wings were finished in 1867. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- I feel itI would express it if I couldbut, as you well know, I am no orator. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- The clepsydra became in Greece a useful instrument to enforce the law in restricting loquacious orators and lawyers to reasonable limits in their addresses. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Whether advocates and orators had liberty to plead in causes manifestly known to be unjust, vexatious, or oppressive? 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Whether those pleading orators were persons educated in the general knowledge of equity, or only in provincial, national, and other local customs? 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Thousands of people who hate the waste and futility of war as much as any of the orators of that evening were filled with an unholy glee. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
錄入:厄普顿