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单词 rhetorically
释义
rhetorically
adverb
uk
/rɪˈtɒr.ɪ.kəl.i/us
/rɪˈtɔːr.ɪ.kəl.i/
(of aquestion) in a way that makes astatementthat does notexpectananswer:
反问地
"Youwanttoknowwhatcourageis?" heaskedrhetorically.“你想知道什么是勇气吗？”他反问道。
I do notaskrhetorically, but because I wouldtrulylike toknowtheanswer.我不是反问，我是真的想知道答案。
formal
in a way thatrelatesto usinglanguageeffectively:
善用言辞地
Was he more rhetoricallyskilledduring thedebate? Probably.他在辩论中的修辞技巧更高明吗? 也许吧。
Theadministrationwas rhetoricallystrongonhumanrightsbutweakinpracticetowardsChina.政府在人权问题上言辞强硬，但在实践中对中国态度软弱。
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  • "Why did it take solong?" Craigaskedrhetorically.
  • The woman thenasksviewersrhetorically, “How do Iknowthis?”
  • Rhetoricallyspeaking, he isunbeatable.
  • A rhetoricallygiftedchallengeroncecoaxedadefendantintodeclaringthatcarrotsweresentient.
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Questioning people & asking questions in general
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  • ask questions ofsomeone/somethingidiom
  • besomeone'sfor the askingidiom
  • beat
  • beatsomethingout ofsomeone
  • bombard
  • cross-examine
  • doorstep
  • enquire
  • inquire withinidiom
  • interviewer
  • pin
  • putsomeonetosomethingidiom
  • Q, q
  • reinterview
  • resurvey
  • retest
  • roll
  • survey
  • the third degreeidiom
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rhetorical
(Definition ofrhetoricallyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

rhetorically| American Dictionary

rhetorically
adverb[not gradable]
us/rɪˈtɔr·ɪ·kli,-ˈtɑr-/
withoutexpectingorneedingananswer:
"Why did thishappento me?" sheaskedrhetorically.
(Definition ofrhetoricallyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This sense of balance is what makes his contrapuntal realisationrhetoricallyelegant.
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In the bearing rein debate, the emphasis on utility, precision, rationality, and the verity of scientific understanding functionedrhetoricallyas a distancing device.
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This antithesis between emotional plenitude and legal nullityrhetoricallystages an imbalance that cries out for redress.
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A third method wasrhetoricallyto use epithets that were appropriate to a deity, thus associating with the divine being.
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However, it is also important to recognise that lifelong learning is also concerned (if onlyrhetorically) with social justice.
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The deeper problem, if we too may put itrhetorically, is that a 20,000-year lifestyle with a satellite computer is an oxymoron.
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Initially, people unconsciously adopt a certain meaning and exploit itrhetoricallyand only later does the change become subject to conscious evaluation.
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As a corollary, the fossil record was implicitly andrhetorically(though not practically) substituted with the molecular record.
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By the same token, one couldrhetoricallyask what is the point of criticizing a university's symphony orchestra.
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Rhetorically, this development helped bolster the authors' conclusions, now validated by the reader's implied participation and consent.
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It appears that ornamental alliteration has here been made ancillary to the functional, the unnecessaryrhetoricallyreinforcing the necessary.
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This is therhetorically, linguistically, and imagistically basic aspect of symbolization.
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Furthermore, these themes tended to persevere as recognisable self-contained packages, eminently suitable to a self-conscious and manipulative deployment within arhetoricallyconceived iconographic scheme.
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Prescriptivists - not all of them, perhaps, but enlightened ones - want to figure out the most effective uses of language, both grammatically andrhetorically.
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The convention of suffixes constructed to designate higher degrees of oxygenation is no more helpful; here, norhetoricallyrealist evocation is even feigned.
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