of, relating to, or concerned with the art of rhetoric
(与)修辞(有关)的
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repetition is a common rhetorical device .重复是一种常见的修辞手段。
expressed in terms intended to persuade or impress
虚夸的;辞藻华丽的
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the rhetorical commitment of the government to give priority to primary education .政府满口承诺优先考虑初等教育。
(of a question)asked in order to produce an effect or to make a statement rather than to elicit information
(问句)修辞性的,设问形式的(为制造修辞效果而非引出信息的)。
"late Middle English (first used in the sense ‘eloquently expressed’): via Latin from Greek