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

• The contrast in their personalities reminded me of the biblical allegory of Cain and Abel.
  二人性格的反差让我想起来《圣经》里该隐和亚伯的寓言。
• 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。
• 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。
• This painting is an allegory of the struggle between good and evil.
  这是一幅讲述善与恶斗争的寓意画。
• As a master writer, Nathaniel Hawthorne takes allegory as a basic narrative form for his writing and focuses his theme on the exploration of human nature.
  纳撒尼尔·霍桑是美国经典作家，寓言体叙事是其作品中的基本叙事模式，对人性善恶的思考是其作品持久关注的主题。
• It should be read as an allegory.
  应该把它当作寓言来读。
• Differing from the symbolism technique often used in western poetry," bi-xing "and allegory are more regularly used in classical Chinese poetry.
  与西方经常使用象征手法不同，中国在古典诗歌中多用比兴和讽喻。
• The whole allegory is a consistent attack on morality and respectability.
  整个寓言是对道德和有地位的人的有力抨击。
• There are many passages in the Old and New Testaments which it is simply impossible to understand without allegory.
  有很多通道，在新旧约，它是根本不可能的理解没有寓言。
• Allegory is a literary device by which another level of meaning is concealed within what is usually a story.
  寓言是一种文学体裁，通过它可以传达出另一层意思，在这种文学体裁中通常会是一个故事。