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

• ( 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。
• 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。
• A trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs.
  预期的和发生的不一致的一种修辞。
• 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。
• There is no "Google is doomed" trope.
  世上也不存在“谷歌在劫难逃”的比喻。
• Chapter two provides a summary of trope of English vocabulary.
  第二章是英语词汇转义概述。
• The age old school/ teacher/ studying trope ranked number one.
  老学校、老师、学习相关内容位列榜首。
• 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。
• 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）。
• So we've already seen the trope of the house.
  我们已经看过关于房子的比喻。