allegory 的定义
plural al·le·go·ries.
- a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another.
- a symbolical narrative: the allegory of Piers Plowman.
- emblem.
allegory 近义词
indirect representation, storytelling
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allegory 的反义词 2 个
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- Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a once-in-a-generation show, transforming supernatural teen pulp into an allegory for growing up and becoming a stronger, more complex and, in some ways, more wounded person than you ever thought you’d be.
- That said, I don’t want to twist it into an allegory about leadership and collective sacrifice in times of crisis.
- Defining dataTo understand what data is, and how to govern it, metaphors and allegories can be helpful.
- It’s an allegory, surely, but not one intentionally played for laughs.
- Besides setting up unrealistic ideals of love, Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks-starrer You’ve Got Mail became a timeless allegory for the charming independent bookstore.
- He insisted that he had not intended the novel to be political allegory, while knowing full well that it would be taken as such.
- A “Crime of the Century” that takes on mythic dimensions as an allegory of a city in decline.
- They are, after all, carefully selected “types,” and to isolate them runs the risk of seeing the book as an allegory.
- Seizing on this scene, critics called the novel “an allegory of our violent times.”
- By using allegory, Percy both engages and sidesteps difficult questions.
- Many rabbis have regarded the formation of Adam and Eve and their adventure as an allegory.
- So that, besides the allegory, we have four dimensions of matter instead of three.
- But the spirit of allegory, which has never been lost, may be traced throughout these barbarous discourses.
- Its allegory, its learned literary allusions, its delving into obscure historic events, preclude any hope of popular success.
- Allegory is a narrative in which material things and circumstances are used to illustrate and enforce high spiritual truths.