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orator

/awr-uh-ter, or-/US // ˈɔr ə tər, ˈɒr- //UK // (ˈɒrətə) //

演说家,演讲者,雄辩家,演说者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who delivers an oration; a public speaker, especially one of great eloquence: Demosthenes was one of the great orators of ancient Greece.
    • : Law. a plaintiff in a case in a court of equity.

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Examples

  • His father, Mario Cuomo, a gifted orator and thinker who was talked about as a future presidential candidate until he blinked unexpectedly at a moment when he was prepared to announce his candidacy, served three terms as governor.

  • Marten is a gifted and eternally optimistic orator who can spellbound audiences talking about the promise of education.

  • But the Roman orator Cicero felt that Calgacus and the peoples vanquished by Rome were missing a broader point.

  • In Canning he found, or rather projected, “a genius, almost a universal one, an orator, a wit, a poet, a statesman.”

  • What was jarring was the orator in question—President Nicolas Maduro.

  • They have never sat in a large lecture hall with a spellbinding orator.

  • Obama is unique in that before his presidency, he was an accomplished writer, and he is rightly known as an inspiring orator.

  • The voice of the orator peculiarly should be free from studied effects, and responsive to motive.

  • Frantic applause, several times repeated, which drowned the voice of the orator.

  • Both of the orator's hands swung upward and outward, and he looked intently at the ceiling.

  • Samuel Badcock, an English divine and writer, died; admired as a pulpit orator and a man of literary talent.

  • Charles Montague, earl Halifax, died; an eminent English statesman, orator and poet.