单词
orator
英 ['?r?t?]
美['?r?t?]
基本信息
- n. 演说者；演讲者；雄辩家；原告
TEM8畅通词汇
词态变化
复数:?orators;
中文词源
orator 演说家
来自拉丁语orare演讲，演说，词源同oral,oration.
英文词源
- orator
- orator: [14] Orator is one of a small family of English words that go back to the Latin verb ōrāre ‘speak’. Others include oracle [14], oration [14] (whence, by back-formation, orate [16]), and oratory ‘public speaking’ [16]. And besides these, there is a special subset of words that depend on a later, extended sense of ōrāre, ‘pray’: adore [15] (etymologically ‘pray to’), inexorable, oratory ‘small chapel’ [14] (whose Italian form has given English oratorio [18]), and the now archaic orison ‘prayer’ [12] (etymologically the same word as oration).
=> adore, inexorable, oracle, orison - orator (n.)
- late 14c., "one who pleads or argues for a cause," from Anglo-French oratour (Modern French orateur), from Latin orator "speaker," from orare "to speak, speak before a court or assembly, pray, plead," from PIE root *or- "to pronounce a ritual formula" (cognates: Sanskrit aryanti "they praise," Homeric Greek are, Attic ara "prayer," Hittite ariya- "to ask the oracle," aruwai- "to revere, worship"). Meaning "public speaker" is attested from early 15c.
双语例句
- 1. Lenin was the great orator of the Russian Revolution.
- 列宁是俄国革命时期伟大的演说家。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. a fine political orator
- 优秀的政治演说家
来自《权威词典》
- 3. He was so eloquent that he cut down the finest orator.
- 他能言善辩,胜过最好的演说家.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. He excels as an orator.
- 他是一个出色的演说家.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. The orator gestured vigorously while speaking.
- 这位演讲者讲话时用力地做手势.
来自《简明英汉词典》
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