allusion 的定义
- a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication: The novel's title is an allusion to Shakespeare.
- the act of alluding; the making of a casual or indirect reference to something: The Bible is a fertile source of allusion in art.
- Obsolete. a metaphor or parable.
allusion 近义词
indirect reference; hint
更多allusion例句
- His deep love of literature is evident in his artworks, which still include fragments of text, as well as photographs of favorite writers and layers of literary allusions.
- It’s a rich and vibrant story about love and sin and redemption, laced through with allusions to everything from Peter’s denial of Christ to the none pizza with left beef meme.
- There’s biblical allusion that I haven’t even begun to mine.
- The preacher sprinkles his calls for affordable health care with Biblical allusions, reminding voters that Bartimaeus, a blind man healed by Jesus in the Gospel of Mark, “suffered from a preexisting condition.”
- By engineering standards, the Pompidou is far less practical than many buildings that make no allusion to Meccano.
- The definition of “innuendo,” according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is “an oblique allusion.”
- One interpretation suggests he is the embodiment of whisky, a lewd allusion to a tenured tradition of Scottish alcoholism.
- From Cyrus on, however, it was all, to borrow another Biblical allusion, fire and brimstone.
- And near the end of the play, Seguin offered an allusion to Fiddler on the Roof, yelling, “Sunrise, sunset!”
- I never miss a chance to make an allusion to their similarity.
- With every allusion that Ramona made to the saints' statues, Alessandro's desire to procure one for her deepened.
- The words are very old, and conveyed a certain religious and political allusion.
- The story of Longius is very common; hence Chaucer readily introduced an allusion to it, though his original has no hint of it.
- There are some other survivals in man of ancient structures to which a passing allusion must suffice.
- There is an obvious allusion in this line to the common proverb—'As fain as fowl of a fair morrow,' which is quoted in the Kn.