| 词汇 | metonym |
| 释义 | metonym noun[ C ] language specializeduk /ˈmet.ə.nɪm/ us /ˈmet̬.ə.nɪm/ a word or expression that refers to something using the name of one of its qualities or features: 换喻中所使用的词或短语 The High Street is a metonym for the primary business street of towns or cities.“高街”是城镇主要商业街的代名词。 She artfully uses metaphors and metonyms to conjure entirely fresh ways of seeing the world.她巧妙地使用隐喻和转喻来创造全新的看待世界的方式。 See metonymy "Wheels" for "car" is a metonym. Today, the term "rice and beans" is used as a metonym for basic needs of food. Metonyms do not point anywhere but to the thing of which they are a part. Supporting a faintly hopeless football team is turned into a metonym for life's uphill struggle. Figurative use of language allegorically allusion anthropomorphic anthropomorphize double meaning fig figurative figuratively figure of speech idiom metaphorical mixed metaphor non-literal non-metaphorical so to speakidiom speak symbol trope unironic unironically Examples of metonymmetonym These perennial illnesses of the motherland were metonyms for the social crises of the body-politic. In the first case, a new metonym can have the benefit of doubt with critics of economic man and gain some initial sympathy. A new metonym may appeal to critics of economic man, whilst potentially repelling its sympathizers. In a metonym, a subject or category is described by one or a set of its features. Second, visual metonyms for cities offered a sense of possession. It also breeds its own mythology by persistent stereotypes and metonyms, images which stand for the whole, but which also hide the whole. The structure of the metaphor is very different from that of the metonym. Spending money to hire a capable and responsible carer is a metonym for the absent children's personal care. Its name, as you may have guessed, is a metonym for the instrumentation - wind band. In both instances, the male working-class body becomes the metonym for national identity. 16. The sigh-like ascending chromatic figures and minute descending motives in minor that trace each of her steps and gestures are traditional acoustic metonyms of pain and suffering lament. Of course, since correspondence theorists recognize the use of metonymy, they might respond that the name is merely a metonym for the anticipated winners of the talent contest. And going wider, synchronically, such a list is formally a kind of metonym and thus a trope based on contiguity of space, time, or other context. This list can not include all metonyms, but only some of those that are identified as common. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There is nothing press-like about reporters or crown-like about a monarch, but the press and the crown are both common metonyms. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of metonym 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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