| 词汇 | pleonasm |
| 释义 | pleonasm noun[ C or U ] language specializeduk /ˈpliː.ə.næz.əm/ us /ˈpliː.ə.næz.əm/ the use of more words than are needed to express a meaning, done either unintentionally or for emphasis; an example of this: 冗笔，赘述;冗词，赘句 An example of pleonasm might be "kick it with your feet". There is a looseness in his writing, as in the pleonasm "I myself". Compare tautology Properly speaking, “in his own thinking” is a pleonasm; every man must think for himself, no one can think for another. "Man-made money" is a pleonasm that I wish he would not use, because it suggests that money can be something other than man-made. There are several instances of pleonasm, truism, poor syntax, and mixed metaphor. The speech might also be considered an example of pleonasm, "the use of more words than those necessary to denote mere sense". Linguistics: terminology & vocabulary abbreviated form accommodation alphabetic Anglicism antonym antonymous buzzword cognate coinage homography homonymic homonymy homophonic homophony productively receptive receptively referent superordinate vocab You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Too much and unnecessary Related wordpleonastic Examples of pleonasmpleonasm Observe that the antiphrasis 'popular democracy' is made more cruel by the use of pleonasm. The title is almost a pleonasm: the watchful guardian, the careful caregiver. They tend to be more like the prose either because they are closely modelled on it or because of the absence from them of pleonasm. Draftsmen, though wrongly accused sometimes of pleonasm and excess of verbiage, do not normally waste a subsection for an unnecessary purpose. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not sure whether they are a redundancy, a tautology or a pleonasm, but they are certainly superfluous. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a pleonasm actually. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many other examples of pleonasm are redundant only if the speaker's knowledge is taken into account. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Linguists usually call this redundancy to avoid confusion with syntactic pleonasm, a more important phenomenon for theoretical linguistics. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A more general classification of redundancy is pleonasm, which can be any unnecessary words (or even word parts). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Sometimes editors and grammatical stylists will use pleonasm to describe simple wordiness. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The term pleonasm is most often, however, employed as synonymous with tautology. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. On the other hand, as is the case with any literary or rhetorical effect, excessive use of pleonasm weakens writing and speech; superfluous words distract from the content. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In particular, pleonasm sometimes serves the same function as rhetorical repetitionit can be used to reinforce an idea, contention or question, rendering writing clearer and easier to understand. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See also tautology (rhetoric) and pleonasm. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The members of a student fraternity can be called frat(ernity) boys, technically preferable to the pleonasm frat-bro(ther), and remain so for life as adults, after graduation. 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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