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
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).
双语例句
1. His rhetoric sounds like the death rattle of a fading leadership.
他的慷慨陈词听起来像是一个衰落的领导层垂死的挣扎。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The chapter is mostly wordy rhetoric.
这一章多为冗长的华丽词藻。
来自柯林斯例句
3. the rhetoric of political slogans
政治口号的虚华辞藻
来自《权威词典》
4. Behind all the rhetoric, his relations with the army are dangerously poised.
