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  • 1

    v.polish the language; refine the language

    • zhè xiē lùn jù huò xǔ shì yòng lái zuò wéi yī zhǒng xiū cí shǒu duàn lái lùn zhèng lián hé guó jiāng fā huī cháng jiǔ de zuò yòng

      这些论据或许作为一种修辞手段论证联合国发挥长久作用

      These arguments may have been used as a rhetorical device to argue for a perpetuation of a United Nations role.

  • 2

    n.rhetoric; figure of speech

    • xiū cí tè zhēng

      修辞特征

      characteristic of rhetoric

    • xiū cí sè cǎi

      修辞色彩

      rhetorical hue

    • liǎng qiān duō nián lái rén men duì yǐn yù de yán jiū yī zhí wú fǎ kuà yuè xiū cí xué yù shī xué de fán lí

      人们隐喻研究一直无法跨越修辞樊篱

      For more than two thousand years, people could not cross metaphor research to surmount the rhetoric and the poetics fence.