如果他看到这样一个光鲜的、辞藻华丽的表演，苏格拉底一定非常失望。

Socrates was withering when it came to a polished rhetorical performance.

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告别她已故的祖母，她给祖母写了一封辞藻华丽的信函，喜爱之情略胜怨怼之意，虽然仅略胜一筹。

And to her late grandmother, to whom she addresses a rhetorical letter in which affection wins out, albeit marginally, over resentment.

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不必用多么辞藻华丽的交谈来装饰一天的生活，能在一起吃饭足矣，但这也是必须的，否则就没有什么交流的渠道了。

It's not necessarily a pleasant conversation to recap the day, but it's necessary. Otherwise there is no communication.

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There's plainly a tendency in modern literary theory to reduce all the tropes of rhetoric to just these two terms.

在现代文学理论中有一个很明显的趋势,那就是减少一切华丽的辞藻，只保留这两个。

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The poem represents a kind of as does the short poem, "A Coat" represents a kind of ascetic move, an active imaginative and rhetorical stripping-down.

和短诗一件外套一样,这首诗代表了“,一种禁欲主义，主动的想象和对华丽辞藻的摆脱。

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