allegory
英 [ˈæləɡəri]
美 [ˈæləɡɔːri]
n. 寓言; 讽喻; 寓言体; 讽喻法
复数：allegories
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- a political allegory
政治讽喻 - the poet's use of allegory
诗人的讽喻手法
- a political allegory
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.- 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。
- The book is a kind of allegory of Latin American history.
- 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.- The poem's comic allegory was transparent.
该诗的喜剧讽喻法是显而易见的。
- The poem's comic allegory was transparent.
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)
- a visible symbol representing an abstract idea
双语例句
- Now this is an allegory, these women are two covenants.
这都是比方，那两个妇人就是两个约。 - 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。 - There are many passages in the Old and New Testaments which it is simply impossible to understand without allegory.
有很多通道，在新旧约，它是根本不可能的理解没有寓言。 - So they would say, oh it's just& it's an allegory.
然后他们就会说，这只是一种寓言。 - This famous allegory, taken from the Republic, depicts the struggle to reach the realm of ideas.
这个著名的寓言选自《国家篇》，描述了达到理念王国的艰辛历程。 - The whole allegory is a consistent attack on morality and respectability.
整个寓言是对道德和有地位的人的有力抨击。 - Representing figuratively as by emblem or allegory.
用寓言或者符号象征性的表示。 - Allegory is a literary device by which another level of meaning is concealed within what is usually a story.
寓言是一种文学体裁，通过它可以传达出另一层意思，在这种文学体裁中通常会是一个故事。 - Plato's allegory of the cave influenced western thinkers who believe that happiness is found by finding deeper meaning.
柏拉图的洞穴寓言的影响谁西方思想家认为，幸福是发现了寻找更深的意义。 - The contrast in their personalities reminded me of the biblical allegory of Cain and Abel.
二人性格的反差让我想起来《圣经》里该隐和亚伯的寓言。