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allegory

英 [ˈæləɡəri]

美 [ˈæləɡɔːri]

n.  寓言; 讽喻; 寓言体; 讽喻法

复数:allegories 

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BNC.16676 / COCA.13663

牛津词典

    noun

    • 寓言;讽喻;寓言体;讽喻法
      a story, play, picture, etc. in which each character or event is a symbol representing an idea or a quality, such as truth, evil, death, etc.; the use of such symbols
      1. a political allegory
        政治讽喻
      2. the poet's use of allegory
        诗人的讽喻手法

    柯林斯词典

    • N-COUNT 寓言;讽喻
      Anallegoryis a story, poem, or painting in which the characters and events are symbols of something else. Allegories are often moral, religious, or political.
      1. The book is a kind of allegory of Latin American history.
        这本书是对拉丁美洲历史的一种讽喻。
    • N-UNCOUNT 寓言体;讽喻法
      Allegoryis the use of characters and events in a story, poem, or painting to represent other things.
      1. The poem's comic allegory was transparent.
        该诗的喜剧讽喻法是显而易见的。

    英英释义

    noun

    • an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
      1. a short moral story (often with animal characters)
          Synonym:fableparableapologue
        1. a visible symbol representing an abstract idea
            Synonym:emblem

          双语例句

          • In 1991, he made Raise the Red Lantern, an anti-autocratic allegory in which an ( unseen) master controls the lives of his four unfortunate wives.
            1991年,他拍摄了一部反专制的故事片《大红灯笼高高挂》,片中(未露面的)老爷一手操纵着四个不幸老婆的生活。
          • So they would say, oh it's just& it's an allegory.
            然后他们就会说,这只是一种寓言。
          • It should be read as an allegory.
            应该把它当作寓言来读。
          • Representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory.
            用寓言或者符号象征性的表示。
          • He delighted in allegory, and in the elaborate sentiments of courtly love.
            他喜欢寓言,喜欢宫廷爱情的细腻情调。
          • He believes that Yuanhe style should include allegory poem by Yuan Zhen and Bai Juyi.
            张文认为“元和体”应包括元白讽喻诗。
          • As a master writer, Nathaniel Hawthorne takes allegory as a basic narrative form for his writing and focuses his theme on the exploration of human nature.
            纳撒尼尔·霍桑是美国经典作家,寓言体叙事是其作品中的基本叙事模式,对人性善恶的思考是其作品持久关注的主题。
          • Even in the form of allegory, fiction had no place in New England.
            即使以寓言的形式写的小说在新英格兰也没有地位。
          • There are many passages in the Old and New Testaments which it is simply impossible to understand without allegory.
            有很多通道,在新旧约,它是根本不可能的理解没有寓言。
          • It's an allegory precisely cleverly introduced by language about the inefficacy of speech.
            这是一种对话语无效性的讽喻,被语言以准确聪明的方式呈现出来。