| 单词 | allegorical |
| 释义 | allegorical (once / 3017 pages) adj The story about the dog who sees his reflection in a lake, thinks it's another dog, then drops his bone in the water trying to snatch the reflected bone, is allegorical. Allegorical means containing a moral or hidden meaning. Allegorical stories and plays use concrete ideas as symbols for deeper or layered meanings. Folk tales and fables are often allegorical. Visual art, like paintings, can also be allegorical, with religious or even political messages symbolized by painted figures. The Greek word for allegory, allegoria, comes from allos, "another," and agoreuein, "speak openly. So if you speak of one thing, but mean something else, that's allegorical. WORD FAMILYallegorical: allegorically+/allegorise: allegorised, allegoriser, allegorises, allegorising/allegorize: allegorized, allegorizer, allegorizes, allegorizing/allegory: allegoric, allegorical, allegories, allegorise, allegorize USAGE EXAMPLESMr. Tolle said that French was asked to design two allegorical figures — “one representing Miss Brooklyn, the other representing Miss Manhattan,” he said. New York Times(Dec 20, 2016) An allegorical dance floor, the work maps the African diaspora and features verses from Hughes’s poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” New York Times(Nov 20, 2016) Every performance needs a fresh actor — just as, this allegorical play tells us, every regime needs fresh rabbits. Seattle Times(Nov 16, 2016) adj used in or characteristic of or containing allegory allegorical stories an allegorical painting of Victory leading an army Syn allegoric representative standing for something else |
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