allegory
英 [ˈæləgəri] 美 [ˈæləgɔri]

n.

寓言；

变形

复数：allegories

英英释义

allegory[ 'æliɡəri ]

• n.
  • a short moral story (often with animal characters)

    同义词：fableparableapologue

  • a visible symbol representing an abstract idea

    同义词：emblem

  • an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. The film is an iconoclastic allegory.
   电影是一个关于破坏的寓言。
2. He opens his prophecy by describing a plague of locusts, an allegory of the disasters to come upon a faithless people.
   他首次预言是关于蝗虫的灾害，这是一则对无信仰的人的灾难的寓言。
3. Let me share with you a beautiful allegory.
   让我与您分享一个美好的讽喻。
4. This is relayed to Montag as an allegory of society.
   孟泰格将此视作社会的讽喻。

权威例句

On Ethnographic Allegory
Allegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode by Angus Fletcher
Drop Your Tools: An Allegory for Organizational Studies
Drop Your Tools: An Allegory for Organizational Studies
Medieval Allegory: Roots of Advertising Strategy for the Mass Market
Shadows of power : an allegory of prudence in land-use planning
The Language of Allegory: Defining the Genre by Maureen Quilligan (review)
Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form by Marina Warner
Jameson's Rhetoric of Otherness and the "National Allegory"
The Economy of Manichean Allegory: The Function of Racial Difference in Colonialist Literature