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
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 - If the most common trope in fiction in the past 10 years has been the "9/ 11 novel," we may now be seeing the beginnings of the next wave: Stories of success ( or at least the hunt for it) in Asia.
如果说过去10年以来，小说中最常见的隐喻是“911小说”，我们现在或许正在目睹下一波潮流的开始：亚洲的成功故事（或者至少是追逐成功的故事）。 - Sabbath Lily The first quotation from Sabbath Lily of course focuses on the eyes, and it is not hard to read into Haze Motes's name that the trope of sight is going to be important.
第一句话来自，说的当然是关于眼睛，通过看Haze，Motes的名字，不难发现，在视线上的修辞将会很重要。 - Chapter four analyzes the context effect on trope.
第四章分析了语境对英语词汇转义的作用。 - Underneath this remarkably enduring and widespread trope lie two assumptions that, in their most primitive form, may trace their roots all the way back to evolutionary biology.
在这些不同寻常并且广为流传的故事中，存在两个假设，即以最原始的方式，追寻生物进化论的根源。 - 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。 - Shakespearean is a trope often used to describe the machinations of Wall Street power players, but only the Bard could do justice to the treacheries reportedly playing out at the top of Goldman Sachs.
华尔街实权派之间的争权夺利常常堪比莎翁剧作，也唯有莎翁才能将当前盛传的高盛（GoldmanSachs）顶层的尔虞我诈还原出来。 - Trope thoughts are of special value in the designation of news comments.
比喻思维在新闻评论的构思中具有独特价值。 - Trope is a kind of figure of speech most frequently used in English as well as other languages.
比喻存在于一切语言之中，也是英语常见的修辞方式之一，可以分为明喻和暗喻两大类。 - Trope believes the shift in my mind occurred when dropping prices suddenly made a big-screen TV a real possibility for me.
特罗普认为，当价格骤降让拥有一台大屏幕电视突然成为切实的可能时，我的反应发生了变化。