Britain 's own excellent engineers and quants are stuck in the engine room while the rhetoricians drive the train .

英国国内优秀的工程师和定量分析师都被关在发动机室里，开火车的是那帮夸夸其谈的家伙。

But they were , above all , rhetoricians , skilled in rational argument , and it was their reputed willingness to argue either side of a proposition with equal force that spawned their enduring reputation of deceptive reasoning .

但是他们亦不过是长于理性辩论的修辞学家。他们那据说是可以就一个论点的正反两面同时争辩的干劲导致了他们抹不去的欺骗性推理的名声。

The author also sorts out ways of improving audience effects from great rhetoricians and guiding principles for drama translators , in order to find out the secret to make smooth , lucid , and performable translation with the best possible audience effect .

在戏剧翻译中，我们可以把各个时期的修辞学家提高受众效果的理论观点与建议应用到翻译中，同时结合相关翻译指导原则，以期翻译出通顺、易懂而且适合舞台演出的具有最佳受众效果的地道译文。

Not only do sperber and wilson take to reinterpreting classical rhetoric as a means for challenging the validity of other theoretical perspectives in pragmatics , they directly call upon contemporary rhetoricians to abandon their " doomed " effort to reconstruct their own discipline , and to replace rhetorical theory with rt.

斯波伯与威尔森不仅通过对西方古典修辞的解读和批判向语用学的其它理论观点发难，而且直接向修辞学界建议放弃业已“陷于两难境地”的修辞学科重构，用关联理论取而代之。