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
- 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。 - 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。 - So we've already seen the trope of the house.
我们已经看过关于房子的比喻。 - There is no "Google is doomed" trope.
世上也不存在“谷歌在劫难逃”的比喻。 - The Application of Trope in News Comments
比喻在新闻评论中的应用研究 - 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）。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。