| 词汇 | zeugma |
| 释义 | zeugma noun[ C or U ] language specializeduk /ˈzjuːɡ.mə/ us /ˈzuːɡ.mə/ a use of language in which a word that has more than one meaning is used with one meaning in one part of a sentence and with a different meaning in another part of the sentence, usually in order to produce a humorous effect: 轭式搭配法（指一个多义词在句子的某一部分使用该词的一个意思，而在句子的另一部分使用该词的另一个意思，从而达到幽默的效果） "She filed her nails and then she filed a complaint against her boss" is an example of the figure of speech known as zeugma. 在“She filed her nails and then she filed a complaint against her boss”这个句子中，file的用法是修辞手段“轭式搭配法”的一个例子。 Linguistic terms & linguistic style accentual affricate allophone allophony anaphor contextualize easy read emphatic entailment etymological etymologically idiomatic inflected language parataxis philological philologically polysemy portmanteau word stylistics tautology Examples of zeugmazeugma Instead, he considers explaining their oddity by a semantic incongruity akin to zeugma or syllepsis. Some terms covered: abbreviation, burlesque, determiner, chapbook, documentary, epic, hexameter, kabuki, lacuna, paragram, proscenium, simile, tragic flaw, whodunit, zeugma. The zeugma is created by removing the second and third instances of conquered. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Even a simple construction such as this is easy and comprehensible has been called a zeugma without complication, because is governs both easy and comprehensible. 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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