英语词汇“simile-monger”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

C1. General use as a modifier. Also with agent nouns, forming nouns in which simile expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in simile-maker, simile-monger.

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1677 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer ii. 16 I cou'd not..sit to a vain young Simile-maker, tho' he flatter'd me.

1692 C. Gildon Post-boy rob'd of his Mail I. iii. 31 He's but a meet simile Monger at best, and his Wit lies in a Habit, and Jingle, without any design.

1781 Town & Country Mag. Apr. 177/1 Colonel Witwou'd is, perhaps, one of the greatest simile mongers in the three kingdoms.

1889 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. VIII. 516/2 The conversion of the polyonymic, simile name into one which is mononymic and metaphorical.

1911 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 31 64 The primary word in a comparison attracts to its own case-form the secondary, or simile word.

1986 Oxf. Rev. Educ. 12 46 Both researchers assumed total competence in simile use and merely exploited its figurative power as a tool for probing pupils' scientific understanding.

2006 Weekly Standard (Washington, D.C.) 3 July 31/2 The first-person narrative approximates the style and voice of Chandler's Philip Marlowe as successfully as any of that simile master's imitators.

单词	simile-monger
释义	> as lemmas simile-monger C1. General use as a modifier. Also with agent nouns, forming nouns in which simile expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in simile-maker, simile-monger. ΚΠ 1677 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer ii. 16 I cou'd not..sit to a vain young Simile-maker, tho' he flatter'd me. 1692 C. Gildon Post-boy rob'd of his Mail I. iii. 31 He's but a meet simile Monger at best, and his Wit lies in a Habit, and Jingle, without any design. 1781 Town & Country Mag. Apr. 177/1 Colonel Witwou'd is, perhaps, one of the greatest simile mongers in the three kingdoms. 1889 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. VIII. 516/2 The conversion of the polyonymic, simile name into one which is mononymic and metaphorical. 1911 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 31 64 The primary word in a comparison attracts to its own case-form the secondary, or simile word. 1986 Oxf. Rev. Educ. 12 46 Both researchers assumed total competence in simile use and merely exploited its figurative power as a tool for probing pupils' scientific understanding. 2006 Weekly Standard (Washington, D.C.) 3 July 31/2 The first-person narrative approximates the style and voice of Chandler's Philip Marlowe as successfully as any of that simile master's imitators. extracted from similen. < as lemmas
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