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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

          • 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。
          • Allegory is a literary device by which another level of meaning is concealed within what is usually a story.
            寓言是一种文学体裁,通过它可以传达出另一层意思,在这种文学体裁中通常会是一个故事。
          • The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come is a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan and published in February, 1678.
            《天路历程》是英国基督教作家、布道家约翰·班扬的著作,于1678年2月出版,是一首基督教的寓言诗。
          • 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。
          • 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。
          • Peach Blossom-like Face is an allegory which has pronounced symbolized color.
            《人面桃花》是一部寓言,具有浓重的象征意味。
          • 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。
          • 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。
          • Used in or characteristic of or containing allegory.
            用在寓言中或具有寓言的特征或包含寓言的。