| 词汇 | pleonastic |
| 释义 | pleonastic adjective language specializeduk /ˌpliː.əˈnæs.tɪk/ us /ˌpliː.əˈnæs.tɪk/ using more words than are needed to express a meaning, either unintentionally or for emphasis: 冗述的;赘述的 The prose is often pleonastic in nature.散文在本质上往往是冗长重复的。 Some pleonastic phrases, such as "tuna fish" or "advance reservation", become part of normal idiom.像“金枪鱼鱼”或“提前预约”这种同义反复的短语已经变成了日常习语。 Related word pleonasm Compare tautological "Get it for free" is pleonastic - it is only necessary to say "Get it free". Out of context, the prepositional phrases may look pleonastic. The pleonastic use of the third person personal pronoun seems to have been common in all periods of English. Pleonastic redundancy does not make a phrase ungrammatical. 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 Examples of pleonasticpleonastic Some people regard such usages as pleonastic, and avoid them or disparage them, but this does not prevent them from being widely employed. Developing this account in greater detail would carry us too far afield, however, requiring a reexamination of pleonastic strategies and transitivity constraints on passives. The strategy of rewriting might seem pleonastic, but it serves two functions. It seems to be a little pleonastic. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Both sentences are grammatically correct, but the word "that" is pleonastic in this case. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Generally the future is assumed, making most constructions of this sort pleonastic. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It is pleonastic to refer to a class action as a class action suit. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Pleonastic uses are not considered referential, and so are not part of coreference. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They are rendered in ways that best fit the immediate context or omitted in translation without a footnote when deemed pleonastic. 8. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The second sentence, which omits the pleonastic it is marked as ungrammatical although no meaning is lost by the omission. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In this example the pleonastic it fills the subject function, however it does not contribute any meaning to the sentence. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Semerwater is a pleonastic place name. 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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