| 单词 | oratory |
| 释义 | oratory (once / 952 pages) n An oratory is a long, formal speech. Often one that's a bit puffy and overblown, making you think the speaker really likes the sound of his own voice. Oratory is from the Latin word oratorius for "speaking or pleading." In fact, oratories often leave audiences pleading for an end to the speech. They're the kind of thing evangelical preachers are good at. An oratory is also a little chapel, from the Latin oratorium for "a place of prayer," or a specific group of Roman Catholics, who name their oratories after where they're built, like the Brooklyn Oratory. WORD FAMILYoratory: oratorical, oratories+/orate: orated, orates, orating, oration, orator, oratory/oration: orations/orator: orators/oratorical: oratorically USAGE EXAMPLESOnce, in high school, I entered an oratory contest. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) Now that the world has lived through the brutal years that followed Churchill’s grimly prescient oratory, what can we do to prove him wrong? The Guardian(Dec 01, 2016) Although his soldiers and weapons vastly outnumbered Mr. Castro’s, Mr. Batista grew fearful of the young guerrilla’s mesmerizing oratory. New York Times(Nov 26, 2016) n addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous) he loved the sound of his own oratory Hypo|Hyper keynote address, keynote speech a speech setting forth the keynote nominating address, nominating speech, nominationan address (usually at a political convention) proposing the name of a candidate to run for election orationan instance of oratory declamationvehement oratory epideictic oratorya type of oratory used to eulogize or condemn a person or group of people stump speechpolitical oratory salutatory, salutatory address, salutatory orationan opening or welcoming statement (especially one delivered at graduation exercises) valediction, valedictory, valedictory address, valedictory orationa farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class) broadside, philippic, tiradea speech of violent denunciation perorationa flowery and highly rhetorical oration harangue, rant, rantinga loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion ravingdeclaiming wildly address, speech the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience |
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