| 单词 | rhetorical |
| 释义 | rhe·tor·i·cal also rhe·tor·ic 1. a. < accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes that I suggested — W.A.White > < make science, in part, at least, a subject for rhetorical discourse — Quarterly Journ. of Speech > < the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation — Lewis Mumford > b. < don't remember a single decorative or rhetorical word in his first ten cantos — Ezra Pound > — often used without regard to some actual condition or circumstance qualifying or negating the literal significance of the statement < must have known that he was acting too late to stay the legislator's stampede to vote and adjourn, so his message was partly rhetorical — New Republic > < the offer was rhetorical, with no certainty … that the money would be paid at all — T.E.Lawrence > < an essentially rhetorical charge — Rupert Emerson > 2. a. < wrote long rhetorical speeches like operatic solos, regarding my plays as musical performances — E.R.Bentley > < an essay on friendship, high-flown, rhetorical — H.S.Canby > < flamboyant and rhetorical tastes, which produced the most beautiful architecture of the past — Stephen Spender > b. < the actual thought of a real war, not a rhetorical one — Vincent Sheean > < has finally repudiated color caste — at the rhetorical level — Carey McWilliams > |
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