rhetoric
英 ['retərɪk]
美 ['rɛtərɪk]
- n. 修辭，修辭學；華麗的詞藻
- adj. 花言巧語的
英文詞源
- rhetoric
- rhetoric: [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, word - rhetoric (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).
雙語例句
- 1. His rhetoric sounds like the death rattle of a fading leadership.
- 他的慷慨陳詞聽起來像是一個衰落的領導層垂死的掙紮。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The chapter is mostly wordy rhetoric.
- 這一章多為冗長的華麗詞藻。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. the rhetoric of political slogans
- 政治口號的虛華辭藻
來自《權威詞典》
- 4. Behind all the rhetoric, his relations with the army are dangerously poised.
- 在冠冕堂皇的言辭背後, 他和軍隊的關係岌岌可危.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. This falls under the head rhetoric.
- 這個屬於修辭學項目.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》