英语词汇“litotes”的音标、意思、用法及中文翻译-反思网

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litotes

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For the use of double negations or similar as understatements (not unappealing, not bad, etc.) see litotes.
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Litotes is a form of understatement, always deliberate and with the intention of emphasis.
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Meiosis is the opposite of auxesis, and also sometimes used as a synonym for litotes.
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Litotes, such as not bad, not much and you're not wrong, are also used, as are diminutives, which are commonly used and are often used to indicate familiarity.
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Rhetorically, this becomes the device of litotes; it can be difficult to distinguish litotes from pleonastic double negation, a feature which may be used for ironic effect.
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词汇	litotes
释义	litotes noun[ U ] language specializeduk /laɪˈtəʊ.tiːz/ us /ˈlaɪ.tə.tiːz/ the use of a negative statement in order to emphasize a positive meaning, for example "a not inconsiderable amount of money (= a considerable amount of money)"反叙法，曲言法（用否定对立的词语表示肯定的一种修辞格） SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Linguistic terms & linguistic style accentual affricate allophone allophony anaphor contextualize easy read emphatic entailment etymological etymologically idiomatic inflected language philological philologically polysemy portmanteau word prescriptivism stylistics tautology Examples of litotes litotes Overall, then, the poet has lavished considerable labour on this passage, adorning the gift-giving ceremony with both litotes and direct commentary. The pattern for early litotes was to start with two words, mainly a positive and a negative connected by a particle. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. For the use of double negations or similar as understatements (not unappealing, not bad, etc.) see litotes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Litotes is a form of understatement, always deliberate and with the intention of emphasis. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Meiosis is the opposite of auxesis, and also sometimes used as a synonym for litotes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Litotes, such as not bad, not much and you're not wrong, are also used, as are diminutives, which are commonly used and are often used to indicate familiarity. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Rhetorically, this becomes the device of litotes; it can be difficult to distinguish litotes from pleonastic double negation, a feature which may be used for ironic effect. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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