While he served in Senate, Adams took the lecture in University Hall to begin his part time job as Harvard’s first Boylston Professor of rhetoric and oratory.

亚当斯在当参议员期间，还成哈佛学院的第一个讲修辞和演讲术的博伊尔斯顿教授，在哈佛学院的大学堂里兼职授课。

The president has insisted the remarks made at a news conference on Thursday were sarcastic.

特朗普坚称周四新闻发布会上的言论使用了讽刺的修辞手法。

Crafting a persuasive argument goes back to the foundations of rhetoric.

有说服力的论点可以追溯到修辞学的基础。

Although this does not sound like a particularly rich image, a metaphor can communicate so much about a particular image that poets use them more than any other type of figurative language.

虽然这个隐喻听起来并不是特别生动，但是隐喻可以递某个特定意象的信息，因此，成最受诗人们青睐的修辞手法。

We often use exaggeration for emphasis or for humour – something known as hyperbole.

我们经常使用夸张的修辞手法来强调或增添幽默感——这被称夸张法。

The political rhetoric of foreign aggression is backed up by very brisk policing at home.

对外侵略的政治修辞总有相当犀利的国内政策来支持。

The play shakes off 19th century theatrical tropes and racist stereotypes.

该剧摆脱了19世纪的戏剧修辞和义刻板印象。

The rhetoric surrounding the talks is growing harsher.

有关谈判的修辞变得越来越尖锐。

I find your presence engaging and your conversation sparkling.

我觉得您的仪态和修辞是如此的炫目悦耳。

To have an educated man or woman come to one's town to give a formal speech about things that mattered was a real event – it showed what language was capable of in the hands of a master of rhetoric.

一个受过教育的男人或女人来到自己的城镇，就重要的事情发表正式的演说，这是一件真正的事情——它显示了语言在修辞学大师手中的能力。

Another tip that will help with rhetorical purpose questions is to make sure you know the definition of these words, because they are often used to describe kinds of rhetorical purposes.

解答修辞目的题的另一个窍门就是确保自己知道这些词的意思，它们通常用于描述某修辞目的。

Her boss sits down with her to talk through her first set of instructions, and they discuss how these manuals actually do a lot of rhetorical work.

她的老板和她坐在一起讨论了她的第一套说明书，他们讨论了这些说明书实际上是如何进行大量修辞工作的。

The way that she gives us this idea is kind of interesting, too, because she could have just said self-driving cars might be safer, but nobody can afford one.

她提出这个观点的方式也颇有趣，因她本可以直接说自动驾驶汽车可能更安全，但没人买得起。 而她选择提出一个修辞性的问题， 这样显得更有吸引力。

Aristotle talks about the emotions in depth in Book 2 of Rhetoric but I'll give a brief summary of the roughly 7 emotional dualities he puts forward.

亚里士多德在《修辞学》的第二卷深入讨论了情绪，但我将简要总结一下他提出的大约 7 情绪二元性。

You could sense that his everyday conversation must have been packed with such vivid figures of speech as personification, symbolism, and misplaced modifiers.

可以感觉到，在他惯用的语言中，一定是满了修辞学中的各譬喻词汇。

And everything is amplified on social media where there's a remarkable lack of nuance and an oversupply of attention-grabbing rhetoric.

社交媒体放大了所有事情，急缺意义的辨别，斥着引人注目的修辞。

Even William Strunk, that Mussolini of rhetoric, recognized the delicious pliability of language.

即便是威廉·斯特伦克，这位修辞学的墨索里尼，也认识到了语言美妙的灵活多变。

His favourite animal is the rhinoceros, and rhetorically he charges ahead in much the same way.

他最喜欢犀牛，从修辞的角度看，他向前冲的方式也与犀牛非常相似。

If he had not had that soaring and poetic rhetorical power, the whole country could well have burned down.

如果他没有那气势磅礴、满诗意的修辞力量，整个国家很可能会被烧毁。

“It is an old observation, ” he writes, “that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric.”

“很久以前人们就认识到，有时候最好的作家会对修辞的规则置之不理。