搜尋結果
trope
- IPA[trəʊp]
英式
- a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression;a significant or recurrent theme; a motif
noun: trope, plural noun: tropes
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression both clothes and illness became tropes for new attitudes toward the self perhaps it is a mistake to use tropes and parallels in this eminently unpoetic age
- ▪ a significant or recurrent theme; a motif she uses the Eucharist as a pictorial trope my sense that philosophy has become barren is a recurrent trope of modern philosophy