The Prime Minister out of office is seen, too often, to have been but a pompous rhetorician, and the General without an army is but the tame hero of a market town.

人们常常发现一位离了职的首相当年只不过是个大言不惭的演说家；一个解甲归田的将军无非是个平淡乏味的市井英雄。

There were no convenient devices for taking notes and early Greek orators delivered long speeches with great accuracy because they learned the speeches using Mnemonic systems.

那时没有便于记笔记的设备，早期希腊演说家可以准确的做长篇演讲，这是因为他们会使用记忆术系。

His son Andrew, the current Governor, eulogized his father as a liberal leader, powerful speaker and fierce competitor on the basketball court.

他的儿子现任州长安德鲁至悼词称他父亲是一个自由的领袖，雄辩的演说家，还是篮球场上的一把好手。

This is actually something that life coaches and motivational speakers often recommend.

这其实是人生教练和励志演说家时常会推荐的事情。

Everyone likes to hear him, he is a brilliant speaker.

每个人喜欢他说话，他是个有才气的演说家。

Australians are great public speakers, I think. - Yeah.

我认为澳大利亚人是伟大的演说家。- 是的。

I was like, I'm a black girl with a speech impediment, and no one thought it was relevant to tell me that this great orator that I'm reading had a similar struggle?

（因为）我是一个有语言障碍的黑人女孩，但却没人告诉过我这位伟大的演说家也有相似的经历。

I never conceived till now what toil the temperance lecturers undergo for my sake.

直到现在我才意识到，由于我的缘故，那些演说家的节制颇为痛苦。

This generally happens to the best of public speakers.

这种情况通常发生在最优秀的演说家身上。

And then eventually, I wound up teaching public speaking as you mentioned, and so I applied what I'd learned both as a speechwriter and as a public speaker myself and taught the subject to students.

最后，就像你提到的，我开始教公众演讲，所以我把我作为演讲撰稿人和演说家所学到的东西教给学生。

He began his comparison by describing Kim, an early tech entrepreneur, as a " luminary" in the mid-1990s who never really earned her success, but was " in the right place at the right time (and was) young, pretty and a good speaker."

作者写道，早期的科技企业家金·波莱塞虽被看作是20世纪90年代中期的“杰出人物”，但她从没获得真正的成功，只是“作为一个年轻漂亮的演说家出现在对的时间、对的地点”。

The famous orator Cicero said that the end of a sentence ought to be determined not by a stroke interposed by a copyist, but by the constraint of the rhythm.

著名的演说家西塞罗说，句子的结尾不应由抄写员插入的符号决定，而应由韵律的约束决定。

And I'm going to invite you to join my challenge that is going to take you out of your comfort zone and help you become a fluent and confident speaker as well.

我将邀请你加入我的挑战，它将带你走出你的舒适区，并帮助你成为一个流利和自信的演说家。

So how did this child, blinded and deafened at 19 months old, grow up to become a world-famous author and public speaker?

那么，这样一个在19个月大时就既盲又聋的孩子是如何成长为享誉世界的作家和演说家的呢？

Keisha wants to be a strong public speaker, and her rhetoric professor Dr. Mac suggests that studying historic speeches could guide her persuasive writing.

凯莎想成为一名出色的公众演说家，她的修辞学教授麦克博士建议她学习历史演说，以指导她的说服性写作。

To me he was a wonder. I believed he was the greatest orator in the United States and would some day be heard from.

对我来说他是个奇人。我觉得他是全美最伟大的演说家，而且将来一定会出名。

Warren Harding had owned a newspaper in Ohio. People advised him to enter politics, because he was such a good public speaker.

沃伦·哈丁在俄亥俄州拥有一家报纸。人们劝他从政，因为他是一位优秀的演说家。

" Of course, " said a famous lecturer – he of the French Revolution, who gilded each new decay with splendour –

“当然，”一个著名的演说家——他是讲法大革命的，辉煌壮丽地给每一新的腐朽情况涂金。

I aspired to walk in the footsteps of history's greatest orators: Socrates, Winston Churchill, and, last but not least, Professor Proton.

我渴望追寻历史上最有名的演说家的足迹：苏格拉底，温斯顿·丘吉尔，当然还少不了质子教授。

However, Harry Truman began to change in the months that followed the nineteen forty-six congressional elections. He became a stronger speaker.

然而，在1946年会选举之后的几个月里，杜鲁门开始改变。他变成了一位强有的演说家。