allegory

英 [ˈæləɡəri]

美 [ˈæləɡɔːri]

n.  寓言; 讽喻; 寓言体; 讽喻法

复数：allegories　

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BNC.16676 / COCA.13663

牛津词典

noun

• 寓言；讽喻；寓言体；讽喻法
  a story, play, picture, etc. in which each character or event is a symbol representing an idea or a quality, such as truth, evil, death, etc.; the use of such symbols
  1. a political allegory
     政治讽喻
  2. the poet's use of allegory
     诗人的讽喻手法

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 寓言；讽喻
  Anallegoryis a story, poem, or painting in which the characters and events are symbols of something else. Allegories are often moral, religious, or political.
  1. The book is a kind of allegory of Latin American history.
     这本书是对拉丁美洲历史的一种讽喻。
• N-UNCOUNT 寓言体；讽喻法
  Allegoryis the use of characters and events in a story, poem, or painting to represent other things.
  1. The poem's comic allegory was transparent.
     该诗的喜剧讽喻法是显而易见的。

英英释义

noun

• an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
• a short moral story (often with animal characters)
  Synonym:fableparableapologue
• a visible symbol representing an abstract idea
  Synonym:emblem

双语例句

• They wanted our seal to be an allegory representing the destiny of the new nation.
  他们想要把我们的国玺作为代表这个新国家命运的一个象征。
• International relations is just an allegory for human relations.
  国际关系不过是对人与人间关系的隐喻。
• The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come is a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan and published in February, 1678.
  《天路历程》是英国基督教作家、布道家约翰·班扬的著作，于1678年2月出版，是一首基督教的寓言诗。
• Instead of focusing on traditional themes like mythology and allegory, he modeled the human body with realism and celebrated individual character and physicality. This was the key to his success and few other artists can rival him.
  神话、寓言等传统主题不再是他作品的焦点，相反，他以现实中的人为模型，赞颂人的身体和精神。罗丹因此获得成功，成为无人能敌的艺术家。
• Even in the form of allegory, fiction had no place in New England.
  即使以寓言的形式写的小说在新英格兰也没有地位。
• The play can be read as allegory.
  这个剧本可作为寓言阅读。
• The book is a kind of allegory of Latin American history.
  这本书是对拉丁美洲历史的一种讽喻。
• So they would say, oh it's just& it's an allegory.
  然后他们就会说，这只是一种寓言。
• It should be read as an allegory.
  应该把它当作寓言来读。
• It's an allegory precisely cleverly introduced by language about the inefficacy of speech.
  这是一种对话语无效性的讽喻，被语言以准确聪明的方式呈现出来。