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

• There is no "Google is doomed" trope.
  世上也不存在“谷歌在劫难逃”的比喻。
• The trope of English vocabulary is a cognitive process which uses language symbols to understand language.
  词汇转义是一个曲折渐进的语言认知过程，是人们通过语言符号来完成的语言认识活动的一部分。
• 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。
• 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。
• Trope believes the shift in my mind occurred when dropping prices suddenly made a big-screen TV a real possibility for me.
  特罗普认为，当价格骤降让拥有一台大屏幕电视突然成为切实的可能时，我的反应发生了变化。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。