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philippic
noun[ C ]
formaluk /fɪˈlɪp.ɪk/ us /fɪˈlɪp.ɪk/
a strong criticism of someone or something, especially in a speech: 猛烈的抨击，痛斥
Mr Amery's philippic was delivered as usual to half-empty benches in Parliament.像往常一样，艾默里先生在半空着的议会里发表了抨击性的讲话。
Kagan's philippic was published on Feb. 5, 2003, just 10 days before Europe saw the largest political demonstration in its history.
He regales us instead with a philippic against number, a philippic in which literary flourishes and Hegelian tradition are intermixed.
A philippic at once so caustic and so classical, alighted like a bombshell among the hitherto peaceful citizens of Nopolis.
One person's heresy is another's orthodoxy - the tamest discourse may be heard as a thunderous philippic.
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