Allegory
['ælɪg(ə)rɪ] or ['æləɡɔri]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor.
阿诺德手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.
(n.) Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem.
(n.) A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.
吉米編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Fable (in which what is stated as a fact is figuratively applied), PARABLE, APOLOGUE, story, tale, myth.
編輯:西尔维亚
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Parable, metaphor, fable, illustration, image
ANT:History, fact, narrative
編輯:威尔玛
解釋/意思:
n. a description of one thing under the image of another.—adjs. Allegor′ic -al in the form of an allegory: figurative.—adv. Allegor′ically.—v.t. Al′legorise to put in form of an allegory.—v.i. to use allegory.—ns. Al′legorist one who uses allegory; Allegorizā′tion.
校對:路易斯
例句/造句/用法:
- It was an allegory, representing Mr. Davis in the act of signing a secession act or some such document. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Such tales may possibly have a mystical interpretation, but the young are incapable of understanding allegory. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The allegory has a political as well as a philosophical meaning. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- It was plain to see, as Mr. Bob Sawyer remarked in a style of Eastern allegory on a subsequent occasion, that she was 'getting the steam up. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The composite animal in Book IX is an allegory of the parts of the soul. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- All similes and allegories concerning her began and ended with birds. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
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