Rhetoric

(noun.) study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking).

(noun.) using language effectively to please or persuade.

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• Germania was deliberately intoxicated, she was systematically kept drunk, with this sort of patriotic rhetoric. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Just at this time, Pierre Abelard, who had already made himself widely famous as a rhetorician, came to found a school of rhetoric in Paris. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Here was begun the copying of manuscripts, and the preparation of compendiums treating of gramma r, dialectic, rhetoric, arithmetic, astronomy, music, and geometry. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Dramatic and lyric poetry, like every other branch of Greek literature, was falling under the power of rhetoric. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Union and force and rhetoric will do much; and if men say that they cannot prevail over the gods, still how do we know that there are gods? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• For many a bomb has exploded into rhetoric. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• To him our schools are also indebted for the method of teaching foreign languages b y declensions, conjugations, vocabularies, formal rhetoric and annotations. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• For here is this nation which sixteen years ago vibrated ecstatically to that magic word Prosperity; to-day statistical rhetoric about size induces little but excessive boredom. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Both, indeed, gave themselves to some science--the Epicureans to physics, the Stoics to logic and rhetoric--but only as a means to an end. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• As the demand increased, the school, both of philosophy and rhetoric, became stationary, first in Athens, and afterwards in several other cities. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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