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  1. trope

    • IPA[trōp]

    美式

    • n.
      a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression;a significant or recurrent theme; a motif
    • v.
      create a trope.
    • verb: trope, 3rd person present: tropes, gerund or present participle: troping, past tense: troped, past participle: troped

    • noun: trope, plural noun: tropes

    • 釋義

    名詞

    • 1. a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression perhaps it is a mistake to use tropes and parallels in this eminently unpoetic age
    • a significant or recurrent theme; a motif she uses the Eucharist as a pictorial trope

    動詞

    • 1. create a trope.
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    • IPA[trəʊp]

    英式

    • n.
      a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression: both clothes and illness became tropes for new attitudes toward the self perhaps it is a mistake to use tropes and parallels in this eminently unpoetic age

    Oxford Dictionary