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 orator ['ɒ:rәtә]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 演说者, 演讲者, 雄辩家, 原告, 请愿人

[法] 请愿人, 原告, 雄辩者




    orator
    [ noun ]
    a person who delivers a speech or oration
    <noun.person>


    Orator \Or"a*tor\, n. [L., fr. orare to speak, utter. See
    {Oration}.]
    1. A public speaker; one who delivers an oration; especially,
    one distinguished for his skill and power as a public
    speaker; one who is eloquent.

    I am no orator, as Brutus is. --Shak.

    Some orator renowned
    In Athens or free Rome. --Milton.

    2. (Law)
    (a) In equity proceedings, one who prays for relief; a
    petitioner.
    (b) A plaintiff, or complainant, in a bill in chancery.
    --Burrill.

    3. (Eng. Universities) An officer who is the voice of the
    university upon all public occasions, who writes, reads,
    and records all letters of a public nature, presents, with
    an appropriate address, those persons on whom honorary
    degrees are to be conferred, and performs other like
    duties; -- called also {public orator}.

    1. He is an excellent orator.
    2. Winston Churchill was an orator.
    3. Even Edward Kennedy, despite the content of what he says, is an orator.
    4. The first major American squabble over a proposal to raise the pay of members of Congress arose in 1816 and it set back the early political career of Daniel Webster, who later was to become a famous orator, senator, and secretary of state.
    5. Adolf Hitler made some good speeches too." In her statement to Jackson, she called him a powerful orator. "Experience is also important in a president and that's the point I was addressing.
    6. The meeting was requested by TerreBlanche, a charismatic orator who often ends his speeches with Hitler-style salutes.
    7. Trotsky was feared by his rivals for his skills as an orator and organizer, his popularity among youth and his support in the Red Army.
    8. It takes a sturdy gavel to silence a chamber full of legislators whose back-slapping gossip and guffaws are stealing an orator's thunder, but Beaton says his 14-inch gavels of American sugar maple are equal to the task.
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