political rhetoric• Rome shocked me by flouting the conventionalpolitical rhetoric of environmentalists.• Coming in the midst of a presidential campaign, the air attack has generated the inevitablepolitical rhetoric, bombast and pressure.• All the noise being made about the hostages at that time was just political rhetoric.• As democracy is, at present, the only permissiblepolitical rhetoric, the rulingclass duly speaks its language.• We should now cast aside all the political rhetoric of the campaign.• All the political rhetoric about big government protecting the weak and the poor is coming into question as well.• But how are we to cut through the political rhetoric to see what lies behind the disagreement?• This political rhetoric would lead one to suppose that the subsequentproposals would be of an equally clear political substance.
Originrhetoric
(1300-1400)Old Frenchrethorique, from Latin, from Greekrhetorike, from rhetor“public speaker”, from eirein“to say, speak”
ADJECTIVE | VERB + RHETORIC | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤empty, mere浮誇之詞;只是空話◇Her speech was just empty rhetoric.她的演講只是些浮誇之詞。➤fiery, inflammatory, powerful, radical激烈的/煽動性的/有力的/極端的言辭▸➤government, official, public政府言辭;官方言辭;公眾輿論➤campaign競選時的華麗辭藻▸➤nationalist, patriotic, political, revolutionary民族主義者的/愛國主義的/政治性的/革命的言辭➤religious宗教辭令VERB + RHETORIC➤adopt, employ, engage in, resort to, use使用華麗言辭◇He was prepared to use militant rhetoric in attacking his opponents.他不惜使用犀利的言辭攻擊對手。PREPOSITION➤behind the rhetoric, beneath the rhetoric在言辭的背後◇Behind all the rhetoric, his relations with the army are tense.在冠冕堂皇的言辭背後,他和軍隊的關係實則處於緊張狀態。➤despite the rhetoric儘管有言論◇Little has changed, despite the rhetoric about reform.儘管關於改革的言辭頗為動聽,但情況基本沒什麼改變。➤rhetoric about, rhetoric on有關⋯的言辭◇official rhetoric on the virtues of large families有關大家庭優點的官方言辭