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allegory

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英 ['ælɪg(ə)rɪ] 美['æləɡɔri]
英语单词allegory
  • n. 寓言

英英释意


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