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

• 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。
• The trope of sight is obviously extremely important here.
  对视力的比喻在这里非常的重要。
• 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）。
• 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。
• The age old school/ teacher/ studying trope ranked number one.
  老学校、老师、学习相关内容位列榜首。
• The Application of Trope in News Comments
  比喻在新闻评论中的应用研究
• Student: So how do we know which spectrum pattern not trope with elements?
  学生：我们怎么对应上光谱和元素呢？
• So we've already seen the trope of the house.
  我们已经看过关于房子的比喻。
• The fifth part is to compare the differences between trope and o the r rhetoric.
  第五个部分是比较比喻和其它辞格的异同之处。
• 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。