zeugma 的定义
Grammar, Rhetoric.
- the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way, as in to wage war and peace or On his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold.
更多zeugma例句
- There is a zeugma in speaks as applied to ‘thunder’ and ‘chains,’ unless it be taken as in both cases equivalent to denounces.
- Lucullus appears to have crossed the Euphrates at a more northern point than Zeugma, where the river was crossed by Crassus.
- The young prince accordingly set out, and reached the city of Zeugma in safety.
- Zeugma is either upon or near the site of Bir, which is in about 37° N. Lat.