epigram 的定义
- any witty, ingenious, or pointed saying tersely expressed.
- epigrammatic expression: Oscar Wilde had a genius for epigram.
- a short, often satirical poem dealing concisely with a single subject and usually ending with a witty or ingenious turn of thought.
epigram 近义词
witticism
更多epigram例句
- It was only when I left home that I realized how unusual it was to have a mother and grandmother who tossed off perfect pies the way some people drop witty epigrams — and how borderline miraculous their pie crusts were.
- Morton emailed me the following epigram from the poet Humbert Wolfe.
- "And she would sacrifice Him and all his archangels to an epigram," thought Isabel, who was somewhat shocked.
- "I wonder if she has ever tried to condense rudeness into an epigram," said Isabel viciously, pausing in her narrative.
- Page after page—full of caustic satire, humorous sally and profound epigram—fairly bristles with merriment.
- One should delight in truth; I do delight in epigram; there seems little chance for choice here.
- Then he smiled grimly, thinking of Voltaire's cruel epigram—that "letters addressed to posterity seldom reach their destination!"