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
• a short moral story (often with animal characters)
  Synonym:fableparableapologue
• a visible symbol representing an abstract idea
  Synonym:emblem

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• Cultural Identity from Conflict to Hybridism to Exchange& A Symbolic Allegory about The White Castle
  从冲突到混杂再到互换的文化身份&论《白色城堡》的象征性文化寓意
• The play can be read as allegory.
  这个剧本可作为寓言阅读。
• 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。
• The play is being widely read as an allegory of imperialist conquest
  这部剧被广泛解读为对帝国主义征服的讽喻。
• Now this is an allegory, these women are two covenants.
  这都是比方，那两个妇人就是两个约。
• 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。
• 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。
• The poem's comic allegory was transparent.
  该诗的喜剧讽喻法是显而易见的。