This contrast may have more to do with rhetoric and self-image than with real life.

两个地区的反差更多的来自于言辞和对自身形象，而不是现实生活的真实问题。

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It was the feature of Chinese rhetoric that literal integrated grammar with rhetoric and integrated the rhetorical regularities with the rhetorical tactics.

从语言学的角度看，“活法”是汉语修辞所特有的语言的语法与言语的修辞、固定性修辞规则与临时性修辞策略的辩证统一。

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For years, from newspapers, broadcasts, the stages and at meetings, we had heard nothing but grandiloquent rhetoric delivered with shouts and shrieks that deafened the ears.

多少年来，报纸上，广播里，舞台上，会场上的声嘶力竭，装腔做态的高调搞得我们震耳欲聋。

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Since then,North Korea has cooled its hostile rhetoric and offered to engage with the United States and South Korea.

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It doesn't arbitrarily stop anywhere because rhetoric and grammar remain irreducible. We have to keep thinking of them as being uncooperative with each other.

它不会武断地停到任何一个地方,因为修辞和语法是不可削减的，我们必须,一直把它们看成是相互不合作的。

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One of the most remarkable things about this text is that it's invariably the soaring, libertarian rhetoric that we end up noting, that we end up remembering, and that sticks with us.

这文章中最值得注意的一点是,这不断激增的翱翔的自由的修辞，让我们，最终注意到最终记住，最终永不会忘记。

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The campaign and governing manifesto that House Republicans rolled out today is filled with rhetoric about smaller government.

FORBES: The GOP Pledge: Smaller Government, Bigger Deficits

Barack Obama, with rhetoric alone, conveyed in 2008 that he was enlisting the whole nation to participate in his sweeping vision.

WSJ: Henninger: A Ronald Reagan Budget

Watson has a habit of blending fact with rhetoric in this way.

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