trope
英 [trəʊp]
美 [troʊp]
n. 转义词语; 比喻词语
复数：tropes
BNC.38163 / COCA.15189
牛津词典
noun
- 转义词语；比喻词语
a word or phrase that is used in a way that is different from its usual meaning in order to create a particular mental image or effect. Metaphors and similes are tropes .
英英释义
noun
- language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
双语例句
- There is no "Google is doomed" trope.
世上也不存在“谷歌在劫难逃”的比喻。 - The trope of English vocabulary is a cognitive process which uses language symbols to understand language.
词汇转义是一个曲折渐进的语言认知过程，是人们通过语言符号来完成的语言认识活动的一部分。 - The age old school/ teacher/ studying trope ranked number one.
老学校、老师、学习相关内容位列榜首。 - If the most common trope in fiction in the past 10 years has been the "9/ 11 novel," we may now be seeing the beginnings of the next wave: Stories of success ( or at least the hunt for it) in Asia.
如果说过去10年以来，小说中最常见的隐喻是“911小说”，我们现在或许正在目睹下一波潮流的开始：亚洲的成功故事（或者至少是追逐成功的故事）。 - Shakespearean is a trope often used to describe the machinations of Wall Street power players, but only the Bard could do justice to the treacheries reportedly playing out at the top of Goldman Sachs.
华尔街实权派之间的争权夺利常常堪比莎翁剧作，也唯有莎翁才能将当前盛传的高盛（GoldmanSachs）顶层的尔虞我诈还原出来。 - Metaphor is not only a means of trope but also a cognitive approach.
隐喻不仅是一种修辞手段，更是人类的一种认知方式。 - The trope phenomenon is a complex problem in semantic system.
转义现象本身是语义系统中较为复杂和难于理解的问题。 - ( rhetoric) characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense.
（修辞学）具有修辞或比喻的特征或性质；从字面意义变化而来。 - So we've already seen the trope of the house.
我们已经看过关于房子的比喻。 - It also suggests that metaphor is of significance both for understanding this traditional trope for its further study.
并指出对隐喻的研究不仅可以更好地理解这一传统的修辞现象，而且有助于隐喻学的深层次研究。