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(lǐng)導層垂死的掙扎。
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(quán)威詞典》
4. Behind all the rhetoric, his relations with the army are dangerously poised.