Then babbitt slid into a sea of eloquence . 接着,巴比特驶入了词藻的海洋。
He was sensitive to rhetoric . 他对那浮华的词藻还是很敏感的。
He was not a man who played on words . 他不是玩弄词藻的人。
His speech was full of fine words which meant nothing . 他的讲话竟是华而不实的词藻。
They do not seem to have cast them into moulds of beautiful language . 他们似乎并没有把它们投进华丽词藻的模型里去加以铸炼。
No other puritan writers than tyler in america displayed such verbal riches . 美国的清教徒作家在词藻运用上,没有一个比泰勒更丰富的了。
In all fairness the critics made little effort to go beyond rhetoric to the realities of the decision . 说句公道话,这些批评者仅止于词藻,并未去探讨决定的实质。
If you think to write fine passages, you've got to string together big fancy words and high-flying phrases, forget it . 如果你以为好的文章就是词藻堆积,妙语横生,那你就错了。
It might be argued that in their version the pinchbeck became gold, the flamboyant was identified as "poesie pure" . 可以说,在他们的译文里合金变成了纯金,浮华的词藻贴上了“纯洁”的标签。