詞藻

词藻
cízǎo
  1. rhetoric
  2. flowery language

CEDICT

  1. 經過修飾的精美詞語，常指引用的典故或詩文中現有的詞語。北周．庾信〈周譙國公夫人步陸孤氏墓誌銘〉：「潘安仁之詞藻，徒增哀怨。」《儒林外史．第三四回》：「這些話是教養題目文章裡的詞藻，他竟拿著當了真，惹的上司不喜歡，把個官弄掉了！」也作「辭藻」。
  2. 書名。清朝彭孫遹撰，四卷。論唐宋以來諸家詞，並拈取其名篇佳句，品其短長。

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Entry Composition

1 詞 cí
  1. word
  2. statement; speech; lyrics

classifier: 首
2 藻 zǎo
  1. aquatic grasses
  2. elegant

Containing this entry

玩弄詞藻 wánnòngcízǎo
  1. to juggle with words (dishonestly)
  2. to be a hypocrite and hide behind florid rhetoric

Related entries

修辭 xiūcí rhetoric
演说家为了征服他的听众，不惜使用他在交流课上学到的修辞技巧。

To win his audience, the speaker resorted to using rhetorical techniques he learned from his communication courses.

Source: Tatoeba

修辭學 xiūcíxué rhetoric
辭藻 cízǎo rhetoric
巧辯 qiǎobiàn
  1. to argue skillfully or plausibly
  2. rhetoric
文飾 wénshì
  1. to polish a text
  2. rhetoric
  3. ornate language
  4. to use florid language to conceal errors
  5. to gloss over
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