orator

• n. 演说者；演讲者；雄辩家；原告

词态变化

中文词源

来自拉丁语orare演讲，演说，词源同oral,oration.

英文词源

orator

orator: [14] Orator is one of a small family of English words that go back to the Latin verb ōrāre ‘speak’. Others include oracle [14], oration [14] (whence, by back-formation, orate [16]), and oratory ‘public speaking’ [16]. And besides these, there is a special subset of words that depend on a later, extended sense of ōrāre, ‘pray’: adore [15] (etymologically ‘pray to’), inexorable, oratory ‘small chapel’ [14] (whose Italian form has given English oratorio [18]), and the now archaic orison ‘prayer’ [12] (etymologically the same word as oration).
=> adore, inexorable, oracle, orison

orator (n.)

late 14c., "one who pleads or argues for a cause," from Anglo-French oratour (Modern French orateur), from Latin orator "speaker," from orare "to speak, speak before a court or assembly, pray, plead," from PIE root *or- "to pronounce a ritual formula" (cognates: Sanskrit aryanti "they praise," Homeric Greek are, Attic ara "prayer," Hittite ariya- "to ask the oracle," aruwai- "to revere, worship"). Meaning "public speaker" is attested from early 15c.

双语例句

1. Lenin was the great orator of the Russian Revolution.

列宁是俄国革命时期伟大的演说家。

来自柯林斯例句

2. a fine political orator

优秀的政治演说家

来自《权威词典》

3. He was so eloquent that he cut down the finest orator.

他能言善辩,胜过最好的演说家.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. He excels as an orator.

他是一个出色的演说家.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. The orator gestured vigorously while speaking.

这位演讲者讲话时用力地做手势.

来自《简明英汉词典》