allegory
英 [ˈæləɡəri]
美 [ˈæləɡɔːri]
n. 寓言; 讽喻; 寓言体; 讽喻法
复数：allegories
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- a political allegory
政治讽喻 - the poet's use of allegory
诗人的讽喻手法
- a political allegory
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.- 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。
- The book is a kind of allegory of Latin American history.
- 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.- The poem's comic allegory was transparent.
该诗的喜剧讽喻法是显而易见的。
- The poem's comic allegory was transparent.
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)
- a visible symbol representing an abstract idea
双语例句
- The play can be read as allegory.
这个剧本可作为寓言阅读。 - He delighted in allegory, and in the elaborate sentiments of courtly love.
他喜欢寓言，喜欢宫廷爱情的细腻情调。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - This famous allegory, taken from the Republic, depicts the struggle to reach the realm of ideas.
这个著名的寓言选自《国家篇》，描述了达到理念王国的艰辛历程。 - 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。 - 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。 - Hand in Glove& An Allegory for Structuralism
《手套中的手》&一则结构主义的寓言