名詞 rhetoric:

1. using language effectively to please or persuade
2. high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
   同義詞：grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence
3. loud and confused and empty talk
   同義詞：palaver, hot air, empty words, empty talk
4. study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)

1. Strip off the platform rhetoric and what you are left with?
   揭掉那一套競選政綱的花言巧語，你還剩下什么？
2. One whose conduct, thought, or rhetoric is governed by emotion rather than reason, often as a matter of policy.
   感情主義者行為、思想或言語受情感而非理智控制的人，通常指政策方面
3. I am tired of the empty rhetoric of politicians.
   我討厭政客們的花言巧語。
4. The sentence contains impassioned rhetoric.
   這個(gè)句子含有富有表現(xiàn)力的修辭。

rhet.o.ric

n.Abbr. rhet.（名詞）縮寫 rhet.

The art or study of using language effectively and persuasively.
修辭：有效地或有說服力地運(yùn)用語言的藝術(shù)或研究
A treatise or book discussing this art.
修辭學(xué)著作：討論這種藝術(shù)的論文或書籍
Skill in using language effectively and persuasively.
修辭法：有效并有說服力地使用語言方面的技巧

A style of speaking or writing, especially the language of a particular subject:
雄辯，辯才：說話或?qū)懽鞯娘L(fēng)格，尤指一種特殊主題的語言：
例句：
fiery political rhetoric.
激昂的政治語言風(fēng)格

Language that is elaborate, pretentious, insincere, or intellectually vacuous:
花言巧語：復(fù)雜，矯飾，不真摯的或思想貪乏的語言：
例句：
His offers of compromise were mere rhetoric.
他提出的妥協(xié)只是廢話

Verbal communication; discourse.
討論：口頭交流；討論

來源：
Middle English rethorik
中古英語 rethorik
from Old French rethorique
源自 古法語 rethorique
from Latin rhôtoricô, rhôtorica
源自 拉丁語 rhôtoricô, rhôtorica
from Greek rhôtorikô (tekhnô) [rhetorical (art)] [feminine of] rhôtorikos [rhetorical]
源自 希臘語 rhôtorikô (tekhnô) [修辭（藝術(shù)）] [] rhôtorikos的陰性詞 [修飾上的，口頭上的]
from rhôtôr rhôtor- [rhetor] * see rhetor
源自 rhôtôr rhôtor- [修辭學(xué)家] *參見 rhetor

The wordrhetoric was once primarily the name of an important branch of philosophy and an art deserving of serious study. In recent yearsthe word has come to be used chiefly in a pejorative senseto refer to inflated language and pomposity.Deprecation of the term may result from a modern linguistic puritanism,which holds that language used in legitimate persuasion should be plainand free of artifice—itself a tendentious rhetorical doctrine,though not often recognized as such.But many writers still prefer to bear in mind the traditional meanings of the word.Thus, according to the newer use of the term,the phraseempty rhetoric, as in The politicians talk about solutions, but they usually offer only empty rhetoric, might be construed as redundant. But in fact only 35 percent of the Usage Panel judged this example to be redundant.Presumably, it can be maintained that rhetoric can be other than empty.
單詞rhetoric 曾主要是哲學(xué)的一個(gè)重要分支的和一種值得嚴(yán)肅研究的藝術(shù)的名稱。 近年來，這個(gè)詞已開始主要用于貶義，指夸大的語言和虛夸。這個(gè)詞的改變可能源于一種現(xiàn)代語言的刻板做法，認(rèn)為用于正當(dāng)勸說中的語言應(yīng)是樸素，沒有人工雕飾的——它自身便是一種宣傳性的修辭教條，雖然未常常被如此認(rèn)為。但許多作家仍愿意記住這個(gè)詞的傳統(tǒng)含義。這樣，根據(jù)這個(gè)詞較新的含義，在The politician talk about solutions, but they usually offer only empty rhetoric 中，短語 empty rhetoric 可能被分析為多余的。 但事實(shí)上，用法委員會(huì)成員中只有百分之三十五的人認(rèn)為在這個(gè)例子中是多余的。大概該詞除了空的以外還有其他的意思吧