The teacher teaches us the verbal skills. 老师告诉我们使用言辞的技巧。
verbal
[ adj ]
of or relating to or formed from words in general
<adj.pert> verbal ability
of or relating to or formed from a verb
<adj.pert> verbal adjectives like `running' in `hot and cold running water'
relating to or having facility in the use of words
<adj.all> a good poet is a verbal artist a merely verbal writer who sacrifices content to sound verbal aptitude
communicated in the form of words
<adj.all> verbal imagery a verbal protest
expressed in spoken words
<adj.all> a verbal contract
prolix
<adj.all> you put me to forget a lady's manners by being so verbal
Verbal \Ver"bal\, n. (Gram.) A noun derived from a verb.
Verbal \Ver"bal\, a. [F., fr. L. verbalis. See {Verb}.] 1. Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimony.
Made she no verbal question? --Shak.
We subjoin an engraving . . . which will give the reader a far better notion of the structure than any verbal description could convey to the mind. --Mayhew.
2. Consisting in, or having to do with, words only; dealing with words rather than with the ideas intended to be conveyed; as, a verbal critic; a verbal change.
And loses, though but verbal, his reward. --Milton.
Mere verbal refinements, instead of substantial knowledge. --Whewell.
3. Having word answering to word; word for word; literal; as, a verbal translation.
4. Abounding with words; verbose. [Obs.] --Shak.
5. (Gram.) Of or pertaining to a verb; as, a verbal group; derived directly from a verb; as, a verbal noun; used in forming verbs; as, a verbal prefix.
{Verbal inspiration}. See under {Inspiration}.
{Verbal noun} (Gram.), a noun derived directly from a verb or verb stem; a verbal. The term is specifically applied to infinitives, and nouns ending in -ing, esp. to the latter. See {Gerund}, and {-ing}, 2. See also, {Infinitive mood}, under {Infinitive}.
American Indians scored the best year-to-year gains of any ethnic group: a 4-point gain in verbal averages to 388, and a 9-point rise in math to 437.
Mr. Wilson's ear for the speech of black Americans is unfailing: his rhythms, inflections and vocabulary capture perfectly not only regionalisms but the rich verbal lore of his characters.
What a voice, even throughout the range, full of colour, zest and verbal inflections, with plebeian mockery peeping out from beneath a 'gentlemanly' exterior.
"The relationship between the parties is very strained," Cheney said, noting that verbal exchanges were reaching new highs in bitterness.
He aims to hit his readers between the eyes with the absurdities of apartheid and the cruelties of South African police and his chosen instrument is the verbal equivalent of the two-by-four.
The former model, Anneka DiLorenzo, says Guccione reneged on a verbal contract to help her career.
A verbal reprimand would have been sufficient." But Mary McNeill, the prison's assistant supervisor of administration, said the incident was a serious infraction.
FAA recently chastised Delta for inadequate cockpit discipline and poor coordination and communications among pilots, and Delta has said that it will formalize the checklist process with increased emphasis on verbal challenges.
Violence, physical and verbal, continues throughout, yet the piece passes a supreme test: never does it become violence for its own sake.
"The verbal intervention and actual intervention G-7 is taking to push the dollar lower is working so far," said Mr. Prielipp of DG Bank.
Directness of verbal communication from the lips of the singers was not the first source of revelation. As it happens, the opera was most eloquently and - apart from the rich-toned but word-muffled Nurse of Nadine Denize - clearly sung.
Arab leaders worked Friday to try to settle a Persian Gulf dispute that flared when Iraq launched a series of verbal salvos at its neighbor and former ally, Kuwait.
The complaints, which come from across the country, involve alleged intimidation of voters, in the form of both verbal threats and physical assaults, by members of competing parties.
"Statements and verbal commitments are no longer sufficient. The moment has come for concrete acts," said Kaddoumi.
But for the most part, conservatives have faced little more than verbal abuse.
Though Carver appeared to wear his heart on his sleeve, and Barthelme to keep his hands in his pockets (or keep them busy juggling verbal dreck and diamonds), their characters struggled with feelings of futility and depression and often with alcoholism.
Bennett began his initial address to the committee by waving around a boxed puzzle, saying he was about to paint the verbal picture that the members would later be guided by when they fit together the pieces of evidence.
"The company's inherent risk changed, but we did not change that verbal presentation," Mr. Fidel testified.
On average, girls score 43 points lower on the math and 13 points lower on the verbal than boys, yet their grades are generally higher than boys' grades in those subjects in high school and college.
Their seanachai (storytellers) of old possessed the wild imagination and verbal creativity which later surfaced in the work of Swift, Beckett and Joyce.
A verbal pugilist, Mr. Buchanan has long been the center of controversy.
The candidates, left in the race after they took the top two spots in the first round of voting last Sunday, held their final mass rallies in Nicosia Friday night and fired verbal broadsides at each other.
The family left the local Presbyterian church for the teachings of Col. Robert Thieme, a Texas preacher known for unorthodox biblical interpretations and for verbal attacks on liberals, welfare recipients, homosexuals and others.
Silver's study defined abuse as avoidable treatment that is harmful, injurious or offensive, and included such things as verbal attacks.
Much of movie itself, in fact, resembles the verbal equivalent of that goo and grime languishing in the dank crevices of a garbage disposal.
In London, Mrs. Thatcher bestowed verbal bouquets on Reagan in a note made public one day before Bush's inauguration.
Such a verbal offer is not binding and can't be used against Mr. Mozer should he decide to fight his case at trial.
The sanctions and the verbal condemnation were included in the compromise version of a two-year, $9.7 billion State Department bill, which now goes back to the full House and Senate for final approval.
Generally, there isn't much in the way of physical violence here, but the officers are often called upon to break up abusive verbal battles.
Victims of the former first lady's criticism are still returning verbal fire.