He verges on whimsy at times, and there are purple patches: “A russet moon rose tonight, its reflection in the shattered lake ice like a blood-red Host on a wounded altar.”

他总会萌生些奇妙念头，附上辞藻华丽句子：“今夜，一轮黄褐色明升起，倒影在破冰湖面，就像那破败祭坛上血红圣人。”

While this sounds like progress, the reality does not always match the rhetoric.

虽然这听起来像是进步，但现实并不总是与虚华辞藻相符。

Indeed, rhetoric is viewed by many philosophers as the method through which the powerful accumulate more power.

事实上，浮夸辞藻被许多哲学家视为权贵积累更多权法。

And I can come up with a fancy word that's gonna make me sound a whole lot smarter than I actually am, but...the one word I keep coming back to is..." Okay."

我可以想出非常华丽辞藻，可以让我听起来比实际上聪明百倍，但… … 有一个词不断地出现在我脑海里，那就是… … “好好”。

She's not the loudest voice in the Senate or its most polished speaker.

在参议员中间，她既不是声音最响亮那个，也不是演讲辞藻最华丽那个。

It was a rhetorical flourish he would use at product presentations over the ensuing decades.

这是他在后来几十产品发布会上一直沿用华丽辞藻。

Henry continues, " The beautiful words of your letter are so cordially phrased, that they really oblige me to honour, love, and serve you for ever."

“你信中辞藻优美诚恳，让我下定决心永远敬你、爱你、听命于你。

He was introduced with rhetorical pomp and flattering comparisons to the likes of Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer.

人们在介绍他时候，用华丽辞藻将他与克尔凯郭尔和叔本华这样人物相比较。

My anger had me rehearsing glorious, expletive-filled speeches I would deliver to my boss about the various promotions I deserved.

我愤怒让我用华丽又脏话连篇辞藻向我老板要求应得晋升。

I ask no eloquence to assist me in the task; modest worth rejects the aid of ornament to set it off.

我无需用花哨雄辩语言维系自己写作，唯有内心谦卑，摒弃辞藻华美，才能径入主题。

To judge from opinion polls, this effort is succeeding, even if some of the metaphorical flourishes are in poor taste.

从民意调查来看，这种努是成功，即使一些隐喻性华丽辞藻不合时宜。

You don't have to use fancy words; you don't really have to use advanced words or difficult words.

你不需要用华丽辞藻；你真不需要高级词或很难词。

She doesn't have the luxury of curating her words or shielding them from the most painful truths.

很不幸，这位母亲无法矫饰辞藻，无法保护自己孩子不触碰到令人心痛现实。

Now I sound like a word seller there, but you know what I'm talking about.

现在我听起来像是在卖弄辞藻，但你知道我指是什么。

Which is just an elegant tapestry of words.

这只不过是华美辞藻罢了。

Marlowe wrote some limpid lines, as when a devil explains hell's whereabouts to Faustus: " Why this is hell, nor am I out of it." He also wrote a lot of bombast and magniloquence.

马洛写过一些明快诗句， 比如当魔鬼向浮士德解释地狱所在时说：“这就是地狱，我并未置身其外。 ” 他也创作了不少浮夸与华丽辞藻。

I don't think I'm a literary writer in that I'm not obsessed with having know, flowery language and the sort of descriptive words you're sort of alluding to there.

我认为自己并非文学作家，因为我并不痴迷于使用华丽辞藻和那些你刚才隐约提到描述性词汇。

She was not good; she was not original: she used to repeat sounding phrases from books: she never offered, nor had, an opinion of her own.

她并无过人之处，亦非独创之人，常借用书中浮华辞藻，却从未提出或拥有过自己见解。

I thought that the writing in the New York Times was much more interesting and flowery and perhaps that may have sort of influenced people.

我认为《纽约时报》文笔更加引人入胜、辞藻华丽，或许这在某种程度上影响了人们看法。

Where other poets were limited by poetic diction and conventional themes, Su could write a poem on massage at a bathhouse, and he could incorporate slang and make it sound well in a poem.

别诗人作诗限于诗辞藻，要选用一般传统诗题材，而苏东坡写诗不受限制，即便浴池内按摩筋骨亦可入诗，俚语俗句用于诗中，亦可听来入妙。