allegory中文

n.
比喻；寓言；象征。

• national allegory:    國族寓言
• parable; allegory:    諷喻
• fable; allegory; parable:    寓言

例句與用法

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1. The whole allegory is a consistent attack on morality and respectability .
   整個寓言是對道德和有地位的人的有力抨擊。
2. All similes and allegories concerning her began and ended with birds .
   要比仿她，要模擬她，總得以鳥類始，還得以鳥類終。
3. They wanted our seal to be an allegory representing the destiny of the new nation .
   他們想要把我們的國璽作為代表這個新國家命運的一個象征。
4. "the mysterious stranger", his last book, is an allegory that suggests that life is in reality only a dream .
   他最后的一本書《神秘的陌生人》則是一部諷刺小說，表明生活實際上不過是一場夢。
5. This faith, said he, is but a borrowed plagiarism from one of the many allegories invented by our priests of old .
   這種信仰，他說，只不過是從一個寓言中抄襲來的，我們過去的祭司們曾編造過許多這樣的寓言。

英文釋義

名詞

1. an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor
2. a short moral story (often with animal characters)
   同義詞：fable, parable, apologue
3. a visible symbol representing an abstract idea
   同義詞：emblem