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

• 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。
• So we've already seen the trope of the house.
  我们已经看过关于房子的比喻。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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
• 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 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。
• Those rhetorical devices used in advertisements of enterprises such as trope or transferring meaning, personification, pun and allusion, repetition and parallelism, rhyme, especially alliteration and rhythm offer enjoyment in aesthetics.
  企业广告中运用比喻、拟人、双关和成语典故、反复和平行结构、押韵和节奏等修辞手段，给人以美的享受。
• 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。