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 .
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 .
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.