oratory
oratory 英 [ˈɒrətri] 美 [ˈɔrətɔri]
n. 雄辩；演讲术
名词复数:oratories
- An oratory is a long, formal speech. Often one that's a bit puffy and overblown, making you think the speaker really likes the sound of his own voice.
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- n. 雄辩；演讲术
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1. With one big exception, he has not yet shown that he can back his oratory with a stick—and that was a tariff on Chinese tyres, a weak sop to America’s unions.
作为一个重大的例外，他依然没有展示出演讲术背后的那只大棒——对中国轮胎征收的关税只是向美国工会的一次软弱的妥协。
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2. President Obama, who aides say spent many hours "holed up" in the past week revising his Cairo speech, clearly believes in the power of his oratory to win people to his point of view.
据奥巴马的助理称，在过去的一个星期里，奥巴马总统花了许多时间“闭关”修改他的开罗演讲稿，并深信他雄辩的言辞可以赢得人们对他的观点的赞同。
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3. We’ve lost the art of oratory; we’ve lost the art of drawing and writing symphonies and classical sculpture - and now we’re losing handwriting!
我们已经失去了雄辩的艺术；我们失去了绘画、失去了交响乐和古典雕刻技艺——并且现在我们正失去书法！
- oratory (n.1) "formal public speaking, the art of eloquence," 1580s, from Latin (ars) oratoria "oratorical (art)," fem. of oratorius "of speaking or pleading, pertaining to an orator," from orare "to speak, pray, plead" (see orator).
- oratory (n.2) "small chapel," c. 1300, from Old French oratorie and directly from Late Latin oratorium "place of prayer" (especially the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in Rome, where musical services were presented), noun use of an adjective, as in oratorium templum, from neuter of Latin oratorius "of or for praying," from orare "to pray, plead, speak" (see orator).
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