英语单词 | rhetoric |
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英美音标 | 英 ['retərɪk] 美 ['retərɪk] |
中文释义 | n.修辞;修辞学;华丽虚饰的语言 |
英语例句 | (1) The sentence contains impassioned rhetoric. (2) How the influence of rhetoric upon context is felt? (3) Do you know something about rhetoric? (4) This falls under the head rhetoric. (5) Strip off the platform rhetoric and what you are left with? (6) I am tired of the empty rhetoric of politicians. (7) All we have from the report is flowery rhetoric. |
中文例句 | (1) 这个句子含有富有表现力的修辞。 (2) 试论修辞对语境的体现作用? (3) 你懂点修辞学吗? (4) 这个属于修辞学项目。 (5) 揭掉那一套竞选政纲的花言巧语,你还剩下什么? (6) 我讨厌政客们的花言巧语。 (7) 这份报告只是堆砌了些华丽的词藻而已。 |
vocabulary简明 | Rhetoric is speaking or writing that's intended to persuade. If your goal is to write editorial columns for "The New York Times," you should work on your rhetoric. |
vocabulary扩展 | Rhetoric comes from the Greek meaning "speaker" and is used for the art of persuasive speaking or writing. When people listened eagerly to long speeches and studied them in school, rhetoric was generally used positively; now it is often a negative term, implying artfulness over real content. If someone gives a clever speech but doesn't really address the problem, you might say, "That's just a lot of rhetoric." |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]花言巧语;华丽的词藻;浮夸之词 If you refer to speech or writing as rhetoric, you disapprove of it because it is intended to convince and impress people but may not be sincere or honest. [disapproval]
2 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]修辞;修辞学 Rhetoric is the skill or art of using language effectively. [FORMAL 正式]
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