allegory

英 ['æləɡəri] 美 ['æləɡɔːri]

• n. 寓言；讽喻；寓意

英英释义

Noun:

1. a short moral story (often with animal characters)

2. a visible symbol representing an abstract idea

3. an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. The film is an iconoclastic allegory.
   电影是一个关于破坏的寓言。
2. He opens his prophecy by describing a plague of locusts, an allegory of the disasters to come upon a faithless people.
   他首次预言是关于蝗虫的灾害，这是一则对无信仰的人的灾难的寓言。
3. Let me share with you a beautiful allegory.
   让我与您分享一个美好的讽喻。
4. This is relayed to Montag as an allegory of society.
   孟泰格将此视作社会的讽喻。

近反义词

【近义词】

• parable 寓言
• fable 寓言
• metaphor 象征
• symbol 符号
• tale 故事
• story 故事
• relation 关系
• apologue 寓言
• emblem 象征