trope

英 [trəʊp]

美 [troʊp]

n.  转义词语; 比喻词语

复数：tropes　

BNC.38163 / COCA.15189

牛津词典

noun

• 转义词语；比喻词语
  a word or phrase that is used in a way that is different from its usual meaning in order to create a particular mental image or effect. Metaphors and similes are tropes .

英英释义

noun

• language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
  Synonym:figure of speechfigureimage

双语例句

• Trope of Mystery and Wonder in Doris Lessing's African Works
  多丽斯·莱辛非洲作品中的神秘比喻
• Metaphor is not only a means of trope but also a cognitive approach.
  隐喻不仅是一种修辞手段，更是人类的一种认知方式。
• Those rhetorical devices used in advertisements of enterprises such as trope or transferring meaning, personification, pun and allusion, repetition and parallelism, rhyme, especially alliteration and rhythm offer enjoyment in aesthetics.
  企业广告中运用比喻、拟人、双关和成语典故、反复和平行结构、押韵和节奏等修辞手段，给人以美的享受。
• The trope phenomenon is a complex problem in semantic system.
  转义现象本身是语义系统中较为复杂和难于理解的问题。
• ( rhetoric) characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense.
  （修辞学）具有修辞或比喻的特征或性质；从字面意义变化而来。
• A trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs.
  预期的和发生的不一致的一种修辞。
• Also, there is the active and passive difference of the super-general relation of signal and pun, for example, trope is active.
  符号和关涉的超常联系有积极的和消极的区别，修辞用法就是积极的。
• Rhetoricians regard English rhetorical questions as a trope to realize persuasion while grammarians center on describing grammatical transmutation and transformational generation of English rhetorical questions.
  修辞学家将英语修辞问句作为一种能起到说服效果的修辞格。语法学家致力于描述英语修辞问句语法嬗变和转换生成。
• It also suggests that metaphor is of significance both for understanding this traditional trope for its further study.
  并指出对隐喻的研究不仅可以更好地理解这一传统的修辞现象，而且有助于隐喻学的深层次研究。
• Bride-napping turns out to be a common trope across European countries, with versions in Russia, Germany, and Wales.
  绑架新娘的传统在欧洲比较常见，有俄罗斯、德国、威尔士版等多个版本。