Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

  • -- Theodore Roosevelt 西奥多·罗斯福

雄辩不能很好地代替行动,我们只相信雄辩。如果我们真的想成为一个伟大的国家,我们不能光说不练;我们必须行动起来。

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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.

我一直都很华丽。充满了修辞。这就是我的缺点。在我写作的整个过程中,我不得不与之对抗,因为这可能是一种破坏性的姿态。

I am a plain man, and I care and know comparatively little about rhetoric.

我是个平实的人,比较不关心也不太懂修辞。