每日一词“rhetoric”
rhetoric
英 [ˈretərɪk]
美 [ˈretərɪk]
n.
修辞;修辞学;花言巧语;虚夸
英文释义:
1. (formal, often disapproving) speech or writing that is intended to influence people, but that is not completely honest or sincere
(正式的,常指不赞成的)旨在影响他人的言语或文字,但不完全诚实或真诚
2. (formal) the skill of using language in speech or writing in a special way that influences or entertains people
(正式)以一种特殊的方式在演讲或写作中使用语言来影响或娱乐人们的技巧+F129
举个例子:
1.Behind all the rhetoric, his relations with the army are dangerously poised.
在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后,他和军队的关系岌岌可危。
2.This is a center of learning where one can gain a basic education in the trivium (grammar, rhetoric, dialectics, arithmetic).
这里是学习法语,修辞,辨证,算数等学科的基础教育中心。
3.Thomas Carlyle, notwithstanding his tedious rhetoric, is a master of the sublime in prose style.
尽管托马斯·卡莱尔的语言花俏冗长, 但是他仍不失为一位令人崇敬的散文文体大师。
4.Tehran and Washington ratcheted up the rhetoric.
近日,德黑兰和华盛顿的言辞已经越来越激烈。
常用短语:
rhetoric trope 修辞
epideictic rhetoric 表现修辞
The Rhetoric 修辞学; 修辞; 论辩修辞;
Chinese rhetoric 汉语修辞; 汉语修辞学; 中国语修辞学;
rhetoric word-formation 修辞造词
macroscopical rhetoric 宏观修辞
self-congratulatory rhetoric 自吹自擂的说辞
meta-language rhetoric 元语言修辞
exaggerative rhetoric 夸张辞格
teleplay rhetoric 电视剧修辞
contrastive rhetoric 对比修辞
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