Epithet
['epɪθet] or ['ɛpɪθɛt]
解釋/意思:
(n.) An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn.
(n.) Term; expression; phrase.
(v. t.) To describe by an epithet.
伊莉斯校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [Technical term of the Rhetorician.] Adjective, name, appellation, designation, title, qualifying word or term, descriptive term.
尤金伲亚整理
解釋/意思:
n. an adjective expressing some real quality of the thing to which it is applied or an attribute expressing some quality ascribed to it: (Shak.) term expression.—v.t. to term.—adj. Epithet′ic pertaining to an epithet: abounding with epithets.—n. Epith′eton (Shak.) epithet.
克莱尔手打
例句/造句/用法:
- Italians, Piani said, using the word as an epithet, Italiani! 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Elizabeth could hardly help laughing at so convenient a proposal; yet was really vexed that her mother should be always giving him such an epithet. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- You missed your epithet. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- They pressed round their leader, as if to shield him, while they loudly bestowed on him every sacred denomination and epithet of worship. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- His conduct has been--we will say _strange_ just now, till we have time to characterize it by a more exact epithet. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- You dare to apply such another epithet to me, and, as sure as I stand here, in you go. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The candidature of Francis was supported by Leo X (1513), who also requires from us the epithet brilliant. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In the climax of his exasperation he hurled an oath at the dog and a coarse epithet at his mistress. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Its regular architecture, and the gray and mossy colouring communicated by time, gave it a just claim to this epithet. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- You give him his bottle of wine here; you give him meat, drink, and lodging there; you dare not touch him with a finger or an epithet. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Rightly understood, the idea behind the words contains all that is valuable in conservatism, and, for the first time, gives a reputable meaning to that tortured epithet constructive. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Bestow not on me, Sir Knight, she said, the epithet of noble. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I remonstrated, in allusion to the epithet and the vigorous emphasis Miss Jellyby set upon it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He was affected by his mistress's deplorable situation, and succeeded in preventing an outrageous denial of the epithet drunken on the footman's part. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- For such an epithet an Englishman would have struck its utterer, but Caliphronas did not even frown. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Soft is the very word for her eyeof all epithets, the justest that could be given. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Brief self-spurning epithets burst from her lips when alone. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She showered upon him the tenderest epithets that love could devise, he addressed her from the North Pole of his frozen heart as the Spouse of Christ! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- These epithets--these attributes I put from me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- This fixation has brought down upon the socialists a torrent of abuse in which atheism and materialism are prevailing epithets. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I should think one of those epithets would do at a time, said Mary, trying to smile, but feeling alarmed. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- They went away finally with a closing burst of ridicule and offensive epithets. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Do you remember the happy epithets? 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
校對:托妮