| 单词 | rhetoric |
| 释义 | rhetoric['retərik]n. 修辞, 修辞学, 雄辩(术) rhetoric rhet.o.ric AHD: [rµt“…r-¹k] D.J. [6ret*r!k]K.K. [6rWt*r!k]n.Abbr. rhet.（名词）缩写 rhet.1. The art or study of using language effectively and persuasively.修辞：有效地或有说服力地运用语言的艺术或研究2. A treatise or book discussing this art.修辞学著作：讨论这种艺术的论文或书籍3. Skill in using language effectively and persuasively.修辞法：有效并有说服力地使用语言方面的技巧4. A style of speaking or writing, especially the language of a particular subject:雄辩，辩才：说话或写作的风格，尤指一种特殊主题的语言：fiery political rhetoric.激昂的政治语言风格5. Language that is elaborate, pretentious, insincere, or intellectually vacuous:花言巧语：复杂，矫饰，不真挚的或思想贪乏的语言：His offers of compromise were mere rhetoric.他提出的妥协只是废话6. Verbal communication; discourse.讨论：口头交流；讨论语源:1. Middle English rethorik 中古英语 rethorik 2. from Old French rethorique 源自 古法语 rethorique 3. from Latin rh¶toric¶, rh¶torica 源自 拉丁语 rh¶toric¶, rh¶torica 4. from Greek rh¶torik¶ (tekhn¶) [rhetorical (art)] [feminine of] rh¶torikos [rhetorical] 源自 希腊语 rh¶torik¶ (tekhn¶) [修辞（艺术）] [] rh¶torikos的阴性词 [修饰上的，口头上的] 5. from rh¶t½r rh¶tor- [rhetor] * see rhetor 源自 rh¶t½r rh¶tor- [修辞学家] *参见 rhetor用法:The wordrhetoric was once primarily the name of an important branch of philosophy and an art deserving of serious study. In recent yearsthe word has come to be used chiefly in a pejorative senseto refer to inflated language and pomposity.Deprecation of the term may result from a modern linguistic puritanism,which holds that language used in legitimate persuasion should be plainand free of artifice—itself a tendentious rhetorical doctrine,though not often recognized as such.But many writers still prefer to bear in mind the traditional meanings of the word.Thus, according to the newer use of the term,the phraseempty rhetoric, as in The politicians talk about solutions, but they usually offer only empty rhetoric, might be construed as redundant. But in fact only 35 percent of the Usage Panel judged this example to be redundant.Presumably, it can be maintained that rhetoric can be other than empty.单词rhetoric 曾主要是哲学的一个重要分支的和一种值得严肃研究的艺术的名称。 近年来，这个词已开始主要用于贬义，指夸大的语言和虚夸。这个词的改变可能源于一种现代语言的刻板做法，认为用于正当劝说中的语言应是朴素，没有人工雕饰的——它自身便是一种宣传性的修辞教条，虽然未常常被如此认为。但许多作家仍愿意记住这个词的传统含义。这样，根据这个词较新的含义，在The politician talk about solutions, but they usually offer only empty rhetoric 中，短语 empty rhetoric 可能被分析为多余的。 但事实上，用法委员会成员中只有百分之三十五的人认为在这个例子中是多余的。大概该词除了空的以外还有其他的意思吧 |
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