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

• Rhetoricians regard English rhetorical questions as a trope to realize persuasion while grammarians center on describing grammatical transmutation and transformational generation of English rhetorical questions.
  修辞学家将英语修辞问句作为一种能起到说服效果的修辞格。语法学家致力于描述英语修辞问句语法嬗变和转换生成。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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）。
• 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
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• Sorrell Trope, Frank McCourt's attorney, said in a letter that his client is the team's designated control person.
  索雷尔崔普，法兰克麦考特的律师，在一封信中表示他的客户是球队的指定管理者。
• There is no "Google is doomed" trope.
  世上也不存在“谷歌在劫难逃”的比喻。