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单词 rhetorician
释义 rhet·o·ri·cian
\ˌred.əˈrishən, -etə-\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English rethoricien, from Middle French, from rethorique rhetoric + -ien -ian
1.
 a. : a master or teacher of rhetoric (as in ancient Greece and Rome) : one concerned with rhetoric
  < he was a rhetorician and cared little for give-and-take — Jean Stafford >
 b. : orator
  < the only university whose rhetoricians have twice won the … tournament, outtalking all opponents in that oratorical round robin — T.D.Durrance >
2.
 a. : an eloquent writer or speaker
  < a great rhetorician, a master of telling phrases and emphatic effects — Maurice Bowra >
 b. : one who writes or speaks in an inflated or bombastic style
  < seen, too often, to have been but a pompous rhetorician — W.S.Maugham >
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