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allegory n.寓言；讽喻；寓意 (1) 电影是一个关于破坏的寓言。(2) 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) 让我与您分享一个美好的讽喻。(4) 孟泰格将此视作社会的讽喻。 An allegory is like a metaphor on steroids: a writer tells a fictional story where everything and everyone in it is supposed to represent a deeper meaning. Using a plain old metaphor, you might call death "the grim reaper," but an allegory might build a whole tale of how the grim reaper goes around in a black cloak and informs people of their impending doom. Aesop's Fables are allegories, with animals taking the place of different human character types — though Aesop never wrote an allegory about an alligator.

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英 ['æləɡəri] 美 ['æləɡɔːri] (1) The film is an iconoclastic allegory.(2) He opens his prophecy by describing a plague of locusts, an allegory of the disasters to come upon a faithless people.(3) Let me share with you a beautiful allegory.(4) This is relayed to Montag as an allegory of society. The figurative style known as allegory has nothing do with alligators — unless you're telling a story where alligators represent evil forces snapping at humanity. 1[N-COUNT 可数名词]寓言；讽喻 An allegory is a story, poem, or painting in which the characters and events are symbols of something else. Allegories are often moral, religious, or political.   [oft N of n]The book is a kind of allegory of Latin American history.这本书是对拉丁美洲历史的一种讽喻。2[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]寓言体；讽喻法 Allegory is the use of characters and events in a story, poem, or painting to represent other things. The poem's comic allegory was transparent.该诗的喜剧讽喻法是显而易见的。

英语单词	allegory
英美音标	英 ['æləɡəri] 美 ['æləɡɔːri]
中文释义	n.寓言；讽喻；寓意
英语例句	(1) The film is an iconoclastic allegory. (2) He opens his prophecy by describing a plague of locusts, an allegory of the disasters to come upon a faithless people. (3) Let me share with you a beautiful allegory. (4) This is relayed to Montag as an allegory of society.
中文例句	(1) 电影是一个关于破坏的寓言。 (2) 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) 让我与您分享一个美好的讽喻。 (4) 孟泰格将此视作社会的讽喻。
vocabulary简明	The figurative style known as allegory has nothing do with alligators — unless you're telling a story where alligators represent evil forces snapping at humanity.
vocabulary扩展	An allegory is like a metaphor on steroids: a writer tells a fictional story where everything and everyone in it is supposed to represent a deeper meaning. Using a plain old metaphor, you might call death "the grim reaper," but an allegory might build a whole tale of how the grim reaper goes around in a black cloak and informs people of their impending doom. Aesop's Fables are allegories, with animals taking the place of different human character types — though Aesop never wrote an allegory about an alligator.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]寓言；讽喻 An allegory is a story, poem, or painting in which the characters and events are symbols of something else. Allegories are often moral, religious, or political. [oft N of n] The book is a kind of allegory of Latin American history. 这本书是对拉丁美洲历史的一种讽喻。 2 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]寓言体；讽喻法 Allegory is the use of characters and events in a story, poem, or painting to represent other things. The poem's comic allegory was transparent. 该诗的喜剧讽喻法是显而易见的。

Allegory Represent Alligators Story Grim Poem Painting Characters