| 词汇 | rhetoric |
| 释义 | rhetoric noun[ U ] uk /ˈret.ər.ɪk/ us /ˈret̬.ɚ.ɪk/ speech or writing intended to be effective and influence people: 雄辩言辞;煽动性语言 How far the president will be able to translate his campaign rhetoric into action remains to be seen.总统在大选中作出的冠冕堂皇的承诺能够兑现多少尚待观察。 I was swayed by her rhetoric into donating all my savings to the charity.她巧言善辩，说得我服服帖帖，把全部储蓄都捐给了慈善机构。 language specialized the study of the ways of using language effectively修辞（学）;雄辩（术） disapproving clever language that sounds good but is not sincere or has no real meaning: 浮夸之词 In reply to the question, he just produced a lot of empty(= meaningless) rhetoric.他对这个问题的回答只是一大堆空洞的浮夸之词。 He has toned down his rhetoric of late. This isn't just rhetoric. That may sound like rhetoric, a wild exaggeration. Before long, the same political rhetoric was repeated. Without a coherent set of policies to persuade the electorate, the Republicans have resorted to sloganeering and empty rhetoric.由于缺乏系统的政策，共和党只得依靠标语口号和空洞的词藻来说服选民。 Linguistic terms & linguistic style accentual affricate allophone allophony anaphor contextualize easy read emphatic entailment etymological etymologically inflected language parataxis pathetic fallacy philological philologically polysemy portmanteau word stylistics tautology rhetoric | American Dictionaryrhetoric noun[ U ] us/ˈret̬·ər·ɪk/ speech or writing that is effective and persuasive literature Rhetoric is also the art of speaking and writing effectively, or the study of this art. rhetoricaladjectiveus/rɪˈtɔr·ɪ·kəl, -ˈtɑr-/ Examples of rhetoricrhetoric Contradictions inherent to these world views provide a basis for the transformation of political rhetoric and thus changes in political culture itself. First, fraternal rhetoric prepared working-class members for the industrial era rather than teaching them to question or challenge it. The elaborate, if formalised, rhetoric of official speeches is not comparable to a series of popularised archaeological accounts or newspaper articles. This rhetoric clearly endowed the king's body with wider symbolic significance, and this transformation is equally implicit in his own translation of the psalms. Elections ended and rhetoric became dominated by panegyric and display oratory, rather than a means of competing with aristocratic rivals. This type of rhetoric can lead toward an emptiness of moral meaning; the constant reinvention of principle weakens the firm quality of time-honored ideals. The promises of assimilation fell short of the rhetoric. As this mode of rhetoric becomes the norm, downward politeness paradoxically becomes a linguistic marker of power, and a tool for exercising that power. An architecture without rhetoric is evidently an architecture that does not set out to persuade, yet somehow convinces. Many of these ideas were taken, adapted and transformed from the rhetoric of language. The accompaniment draws on all the topoi of melodramatic rhetoric, but makes particular use of instrumental solos identified with a particular character. Pensions policy (along with policy in many other fields) is currently dominated by the rhetoric of individual responsibility. But they were, in general, very unenthusiastic about the rhetoric of civility in guiding them to the destined future. In terms of stylistic features and issues of rhetoric, the voices of the writers are most prominent. The concept was defined by analogy to rhetoric wherever melodic design was discussed. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withrhetoricrhetoricThese are words often used in combination with rhetoric. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. classical rhetoric Furthermore, it is based on a restricted notion of style - that of classical rhetoric. empty rhetoric Talk of direct payments as empowering would look rather like empty rhetoric. mere rhetoric One or two begin with loud tuttis, but thereafter eschew mere rhetoric. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with rhetoric |
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