| 词汇 | trope |
| 释义 | trope noun[ C ] uk /trəʊp/ us /troʊp/ art, literature specialized something such as an idea, phrase, or image that is often used in a particular artist's work, in a particular type of art, in the media, etc. : （某位艺术家作品中，或某一类艺术作品中常用的）理念，说法，形象 Human-like robots are a classic trope of science fiction.像人一样的机器人是科幻小说中的典型形象。 The politician's speech was full of racist tropes. Compare cliché language specialized in rhetoric(= the study of the ways of using language effectively), a way of using words that means something different from their ordinary meaning: For those unfamiliar with poetic tropes, synecdoche is a figure of speech by which the part stands for the whole, such as "wheels" to mean "a car". Rhetorical tropes of antithesis and opposition recur throughout Shakespeare's writing. Compare figure of speech Women fainting was a common trope or stereotype of Victorian England. I enjoyed the way the novel subverted old tropes. The screenplay draws on some of the most beloved tropes of romantic comedies. The treatise contains the first description of the trope of personification in Western rhetorical theory. Ideas, concepts and theories abstract abstraction accepted wisdom afterthought anthropocentrism Darwinism Darwinist determinist Dianetics meat motif musings natalism non-dogmatic reification sacred cow social Darwinism straw man supersensible the domino theory You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Figurative use of language Examples of tropetrope For the landowning classes, the demonstration of investment of labour and capital had moral and political connotations through the trope of improvement. There are no things, only words, motifs, tropes, and half-hearted aspirations after something that never even existed. Although the castrato is not the principal cause of social decline, the trope of the castrato's effeminacy explains his prominence in literature on the subject. Helpfully, there are also concise and critical summaries of key social work tropes, such as that on 'attachment theory' (pp. 78-80). A third factor is the degree of iconicity between the images and their referents in the analogical trope, be it metaphor or simile. The more it taxes people, the more hours of the day people have to 'work for the government' (a familiar trope in right-wing rhetoric). That contemporary tropes entered the language of politicians hardly moves beyond platitude. Instead, ' the father king ' is simply evoked as a hollow trope. Common tropes included the walled city, the port and the market city. As a result, the pros and cons of all of these previously examined tropes are once again in evidence. The generalization is sweeping, but the tropes aptly symbolize the type of history written in this book. This is not momentary weakness on her part, but a systematic trope in the novel. Each trope is discussed in one of the sub-subsections that follow. Does the trope dictate the interpretation, as narrativists insist it must? These tropes permit the characterization of objects in different kinds of indirect, or figurative, discourse. 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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