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

• 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。
• 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 poem's comic allegory was transparent.
  该诗的喜剧讽喻法是显而易见的。
• 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。
• It should be read as an allegory.
  应该把它当作寓言来读。
• This famous allegory, taken from the Republic, depicts the struggle to reach the realm of ideas.
  这个著名的寓言选自《国家篇》，描述了达到理念王国的艰辛历程。
• 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。
• Representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory.
  用寓言或者符号象征性的表示。
• The whole allegory is a consistent attack on morality and respectability.
  整个寓言是对道德和有地位的人的有力抨击。
• They wanted our seal to be an allegory representing the destiny of the new nation.
  他们想要把我们的国玺作为代表这个新国家命运的一个象征。