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subtext

/suhb-tekst/US // ˈsʌbˌtɛkst //UK // (ˈsʌbˌtɛkst) //

潜台词,潜规则,潜意思,潜意识

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the underlying or implicit meaning, as of a literary work.

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Examples

  • Barker’s original novella, The Forbidden, first published in his self-published zine Fantasy Tales in 1985, contributed the basic plot that became Rose’s 1992 film, but none of the backstory or underlying subtext.

  • In the 1960s, outdated state laws banning “cross-dressing” — and various other activities associated with homosexuality — were used as a subtext by the police to raid businesses and bars where LGBTQ people were known to hang out.

  • Because DARPA funded research comes from the Department of Defense, there is an unsubtle subtext about the robots it trains to find humans.

  • Her style is easy to digest but will force you to contemplate its potent subtext.

  • The unavoidable subtext is that legislators want to use the specter of criminality to make legal things more difficult or riskier to do — things with which they take political issue.

  • The subtext of the clown is that life is a joke and can be snatched away at any moment.

  • These witnesses should be of the same gender as the employee, to avoid any suggestion of a “sexual subtext”.

  • And the subtext to that remark, just in case you missed it, is: and neither should he!

  • It is, in a way, a lighthearted routine with a dark subtext: many of those gathered are accustomed to failure at auditions.

  • And so on and so forth, with the ominous subtext fairly shrieking  over the pleasant and heartwarming text.

  • These have been converted into two equations on two lines, with the arrow subtext moved into the equations.