trope
- IPA[trōp]
美式
- a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression；a significant or recurrent theme; a motif
- create a trope.
verb: trope, 3rd person present: tropes, gerund or present participle: troping, past tense: troped, past participle: troped
noun: trope, plural noun: tropes
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression 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
動詞
- 1. create a trope.
- 更多解釋
- IPA[trəʊp]
英式
- 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
Oxford Dictionary
