eloquence
eloquence 英 ['eləkwəns] 美 [ˈɛləkwəns]
n. 口才；雄辩
名词复数:eloquences
- Eloquence is powerful, moving, magnificent use of language. Simply put, if you have eloquence, then you're one smooth talker.
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- n. 口才；雄辩
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1. He is gifted with rare eloquence.
他天生具有罕见的口才。
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2. I am afraid my eloquence did not avail against the facts.
恐怕我的雄辩也无补于事实了。
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3. As he stood before them the perfection of their survival often struck him as the supreme eloquence, the virtue that included all others, thanks to the language of art, the richest and most universal.
当他站在这些画作前，这些经历战火而保存下来的完美的艺术品对他来说就是至高的雄辩，是至纯的美德，艺术的语言最为丰富而又最具普遍性。
- eloquence (n.) late 14c., from Old French eloquence (12c.), from Latin eloquentia, from eloquentem (nominative eloquens) "eloquent," present participle of eloqui "speak out," from ex "out" (see ex-) + loqui "to speak" (from PIE root *tolkw- "to speak"). Earlier in same sense was eloquency (mid-14c.).
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