名词

1. 演讲术；雄辩术
Oratory is the art of making formal speeches which strongly affect people's feelings and beliefs.

2. （基督徒做礼拜的）祈祷室，小礼拜堂
An oratory is a room or building where Christians go to pray.

1. addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)

e.g. he loved the sound of his own oratory