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
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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - If the most common trope in fiction in the past 10 years has been the "9/ 11 novel," we may now be seeing the beginnings of the next wave: Stories of success ( or at least the hunt for it) in Asia.
如果说过去10年以来，小说中最常见的隐喻是“911小说”，我们现在或许正在目睹下一波潮流的开始：亚洲的成功故事（或者至少是追逐成功的故事）。 - 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。 - There is no "Google is doomed" trope.
世上也不存在“谷歌在劫难逃”的比喻。