rhetoric

名词 rhetoric:

1. using language effectively to please or persuade
2. high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
   同义词：grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence
3. loud and confused and empty talk
   同义词：palaver, hot air, empty words, empty talk
4. study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)

1. Strip off the platform rhetoric and what you are left with?
   揭掉那一套竞选政纲的花言巧语，你还剩下什么？
2. One whose conduct, thought, or rhetoric is governed by emotion rather than reason, often as a matter of policy.
   感情主义者行为、思想或言语受情感而非理智控制的人，通常指政策方面
3. I am tired of the empty rhetoric of politicians.
   我讨厌政客们的花言巧语。
4. The sentence contains impassioned rhetoric.
   这个句子含有富有表现力的修辞。

rhet.o.ric

n.Abbr. rhet.（名词）缩写 rhet.

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
A treatise or book discussing this art.
修辞学著作：讨论这种艺术的论文或书籍
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

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：
例句：
fiery political rhetoric.
激昂的政治语言风格

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：
例句：
His offers of compromise were mere rhetoric.
他提出的妥协只是废话

Verbal communication; discourse.
讨论：口头交流；讨论

来源：
Middle English rethorik
中古英语 rethorik
from Old French rethorique
源自 古法语 rethorique
from Latin rhôtoricô, rhôtorica
源自 拉丁语 rhôtoricô, rhôtorica
from Greek rhôtorikô (tekhnô) [rhetorical (art)] [feminine of] rhôtorikos [rhetorical]
源自 希腊语 rhôtorikô (tekhnô) [修辞（艺术）] [] rhôtorikos的阴性词 [修饰上的，口头上的]
from rhôtôr rhôtor- [rhetor] * see rhetor
源自 rhôtôr rhôtor- [修辞学家] *参见 rhetor

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