allegories
英['æləɡəri]
美['æləɡɔːri]
Noun:
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a short moral story (often with animal characters)
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a visible symbol representing an abstract idea
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an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor
用作名词 (n.)
- The film is an iconoclastic allegory.
电影是一个关于破坏的寓言。
- 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。
- Let me share with you a beautiful allegory.
让我与您分享一个美好的讽喻。
- This is relayed to Montag as an allegory of society.
孟泰格将此视作社会的讽喻。
