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

• 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。
• On the Rhetorical Feature and Cultural Connotation of English Idioms ( rhetoric) characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense.
  论英语习语的修辞格应用及文化意义（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。
• 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。
• Metaphor is not only a means of trope but also a cognitive approach.
  隐喻不仅是一种修辞手段，更是人类的一种认知方式。
• The trope of sight is obviously extremely important here.
  对视力的比喻在这里非常的重要。
• Chapter two provides a summary of trope of English vocabulary.
  第二章是英语词汇转义概述。
• So we've already seen the trope of the house.
  我们已经看过关于房子的比喻。
• 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。
• 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。