allegory中文什么意思

• n.
  比喻；寓言；象征。

• national allegory:    国族寓言
• parable; allegory:    讽喻
• fable; allegory; parable:    寓言

例句与用法

1. The whole allegory is a consistent attack on morality and respectability .
   整个寓言是对道德和有地位的人的有力抨击。
2. All similes and allegories concerning her began and ended with birds .
   要比仿她，要模拟她，总得以鸟类始，还得以鸟类终。
3. They wanted our seal to be an allegory representing the destiny of the new nation .
   他们想要把我们的国玺作为代表这个新国家命运的一个象征。
4. "the mysterious stranger", his last book, is an allegory that suggests that life is in reality only a dream .
   他最后的一本书《神秘的陌生人》则是一部讽刺小说，表明生活实际上不过是一场梦。
5. This faith, said he, is but a borrowed plagiarism from one of the many allegories invented by our priests of old .
   这种信仰，他说，只不过是从一个寓言中抄袭来的，我们过去的祭司们曾编造过许多这样的寓言。

英文释义

名词

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)
   同义词：fable, parable, apologue
3. a visible symbol representing an abstract idea
   同义词：emblem