rhetorical question

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Granted, there might be an exception for a clear rhetorical question, but that's not this case.
假如其是一個(gè)清楚的反問(wèn)句則是例外，但那已經(jīng)不是本案了。
And ironically you sense, when you read this that even though Cain intends this as a rhetorical question "Am I my brother's keeper?
當(dāng)讀到這一段的時(shí)候，你能感覺(jué)到其中的諷刺意味,盡管該隱的回答是一個(gè)設(shè)問(wèn)句,“難道我是他的看守嗎？“
To explain why, let me answer a rhetorical question posed by Professor John Taylor of Stanford University in a recent op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal.
為了解釋其中的理由，我先回答斯坦福大學(xué)教授約翰·泰勒最近在《華爾街日?qǐng)?bào)》發(fā)表的一篇文章中提出的一個(gè)反問(wèn)。

Archie, of course, can't stand this because for him it's perfectly clear that a rhetorical question is a rhetorical question.
阿齊當(dāng)然無(wú)法忍受，因?yàn)閷?duì)他來(lái)說(shuō),很明顯修辭問(wèn)句就是修辭問(wèn)句。
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The answer to the rhetorical question is that we can't tell the difference between the dancer and the dance.
這個(gè)問(wèn)句的答案是,我們無(wú)法辨別舞者和舞蹈。
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And ironically you sense, when you read this that even though Cain intends this as a rhetorical question "Am I my brother's keeper?"--in fact, he's right on the money.
當(dāng)讀到這一段的時(shí)候，你能感覺(jué)到其中的諷刺意味,盡管該隱的回答是一個(gè)設(shè)問(wèn)句,“難道我是他的看守嗎？“，事實(shí)上，指錢(qián)的話，他說(shuō)的是對(duì)的。
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To me, the question he posed to the people was a rhetorical question.
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a question to which no answer is required: used esp for dramatic effect. An example is Who knows? (with the implication Nobody knows) ,

反問(wèn)句
On the surface structure, the rhetorical question and general interrogative sentence are not of the strictly identical structures.
所以反問(wèn)句和一般疑問(wèn)句在表層結(jié)構(gòu)形式上并不是“嚴(yán)格意義的同構(gòu)形式”。
假性問(wèn)
修辭疑問(wèn)句