| 正面 | 3742.rhetoric 英 ['retərɪk]美 ['rɛtərɪk]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. ball + -ot (由意大利语缩略而来的指小后缀，可以说与法语的指小后缀 -et / -ette 同源)。2. 该词源于意大利语，由此该词的本意为“小球”。n. 修辞，修辞学；华丽的词藻adj. 花言巧语的 例句： 1. His rhetoric sounds like the death rattle of a fading leadership.他的慷慨陈词听起来像是一个衰落的领导层垂死的挣扎。 rhetoricrhetoric: [14] In ancient Greece, a rhétōr was a ‘public speaker’, an ‘orator’. The word went back to a prehistoric Indo-European base *wer- ‘speak, say’, which also produced English verb and word. From it was derived the adjective rhētorikós, which passed into English as a noun via Latin rhētorica and Old French rethorique.=> verb, wordrhetoric (n.)early 14c., from Old French rethorique, from Latin rhetorice, from Greek rhetorike techne "art of an orator," from rhetor (genitive rhetoros) "speaker, orator, teacher of rhetoric," related to rhesis "speech," rhema "word, phrase, verb," literally "that which is spoken," from PIE *wre-tor-, from root *were- (3) "to speak" (cognates: Old English word, Latin verbum, Greek eirein "to say;" see verb)." |