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

• ( rhetoric) characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense.
  （修辞学）具有修辞或比喻的特征或性质；从字面意义变化而来。
• Chapter four analyzes the context effect on trope.
  第四章分析了语境对英语词汇转义的作用。
• There is no "Google is doomed" trope.
  世上也不存在“谷歌在劫难逃”的比喻。
• 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。
• 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
• 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。
• Chapter two provides a summary of trope of English vocabulary.
  第二章是英语词汇转义概述。
• 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。
• 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。