allegory

英 [ˈæləɡəri]

美 [ˈæləɡɔːri]

n.  寓言; 讽喻; 寓言体; 讽喻法

复数：allegories　

TOEFLGRETEM8

BNC.16676 / COCA.13663

牛津词典

noun

• 寓言；讽喻；寓言体；讽喻法
  a story, play, picture, etc. in which each character or event is a symbol representing an idea or a quality, such as truth, evil, death, etc.; the use of such symbols
  1. a political allegory
     政治讽喻
  2. the poet's use of allegory
     诗人的讽喻手法

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 寓言；讽喻
  Anallegoryis a story, poem, or painting in which the characters and events are symbols of something else. Allegories are often moral, religious, or political.
  1. The book is a kind of allegory of Latin American history.
     这本书是对拉丁美洲历史的一种讽喻。
• N-UNCOUNT 寓言体；讽喻法
  Allegoryis the use of characters and events in a story, poem, or painting to represent other things.
  1. The poem's comic allegory was transparent.
     该诗的喜剧讽喻法是显而易见的。

英英释义

noun

• an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances
• a short moral story (often with animal characters)
  Synonym:fableparableapologue
• a visible symbol representing an abstract idea
  Synonym:emblem

双语例句

• Hand in Glove& An Allegory for Structuralism
  《手套中的手》&一则结构主义的寓言
• The poem's comic allegory was transparent.
  该诗的喜剧讽喻法是显而易见的。
• Instead of focusing on traditional themes like mythology and allegory, he modeled the human body with realism and celebrated individual character and physicality. This was the key to his success and few other artists can rival him.
  神话、寓言等传统主题不再是他作品的焦点，相反，他以现实中的人为模型，赞颂人的身体和精神。罗丹因此获得成功，成为无人能敌的艺术家。
• The play can be read as allegory.
  这个剧本可作为寓言阅读。
• It's an allegory precisely cleverly introduced by language about the inefficacy of speech.
  这是一种对话语无效性的讽喻，被语言以准确聪明的方式呈现出来。
• As a master writer, Nathaniel Hawthorne takes allegory as a basic narrative form for his writing and focuses his theme on the exploration of human nature.
  纳撒尼尔·霍桑是美国经典作家，寓言体叙事是其作品中的基本叙事模式，对人性善恶的思考是其作品持久关注的主题。
• This painting is an allegory of the struggle between good and evil.
  这是一幅讲述善与恶斗争的寓意画。
• Peach Blossom-like Face is an allegory which has pronounced symbolized color.
  《人面桃花》是一部寓言，具有浓重的象征意味。
• The book is a kind of allegory of Latin American history.
  这本书是对拉丁美洲历史的一种讽喻。
• In 1991, he made Raise the Red Lantern, an anti-autocratic allegory in which an ( unseen) master controls the lives of his four unfortunate wives.
  1991年，他拍摄了一部反专制的故事片《大红灯笼高高挂》，片中（未露面的）老爷一手操纵着四个不幸老婆的生活。