Innuendo (諷刺迂迴 寓言神話 格言 單字大集合)

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–noun

1. an indirect intimation about a person or thing, 

esp. of a disparaging or a derogatory nature.  



2. Law. 

a. a paren(the)tic (作為附加說明的) explanation or specification in a pleading. 

b. (in an action for slander or libel the explanation and elucidation (說明,解釋) of the words alleged to be defamatory. 

c. the word or expression thus explained.  



slander

(口頭) 誹謗罪

libel

【律】(利用文字、圖畫等的) 誹謗(罪)



—Synonyms 

1. insinuation, imputation. (歸罪)





　

She's worked hard since then to come back -- and she has! And now, in what is perhaps [a sly nod to] the Sapphic innuendos of "Showgirls," Elizabeth is set to guest star on the sixth and final season of Showtime's groundbreaking, provocative series "The L Word," scheduled to premiere early in 2009.





。寓言

。神話

Cornucopia



。迂迴

Insinuate



。諷刺

innuendo

Even worse, some total dork (Anthony Michael Hall) keeps [propositioning] her with [sophomoric] innuendo when she really craves romantic attention from high-school [hunk] Jake.

revue 

burlesque 

rauchy & sexual, mockery by ludicrous, incongruous imitation

[American] burlesque show presented bawdy comedy, skits, and striptease acts, making gross fun of human behavior. 

caricature 

comic exaggeration, political cartoons

Landa already [borders] [on] caricature on the page.

farce 

comedy with unlikely social situation

lampoon

criticize to satire harshly

But Wilmot's seemingly charmed life took a turn for the worse when he wrote a satirical play lampooning his friend Charles II,

parody

musical imitation, exaggeration



travesty

fales representation

gross, grotesque imitation

[Bush] is a travesty.

It's a [kangaroo] court, a travesty of justice.



。格言

gnomic

She sets up a new bedroom in the [attic], moving her further away from her family and closer to the stars, and takes a job as a [janitor] at a high school, where she [tucks] her braid under a cap and pushes a [mop] alongside a gnomic old man, Purdeep (Kumar Pallana).

aphorism 

short statement expressing a piece of wisdom

Culkin never sounds as convincing [mouthing] the clever, outré aphorisms that Green intones so [airily].

apothegm 

terse, witty saying

adage 

old saying accepted as a truth

Earlier this month Eisenberg was cast as Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg in David Fincher’s adaptation of Accidental Billionaires, which is set to begin shooting in October, the same month Ceremony is scheduled to start, once again proving the old Hollywood adage—you drop everything you believe in for a chance to work with David Fincher.

rudder

maxim 

concise statement of a principle, truth or rule of conduct, 座右銘是也

I fall in and out of love. As if I were double. Or triple. Or whimsical. That's a nice word. There's nothing worse than blandness. Do you have a little maxim for everything?

proverb 

folksy, widely accepted

(old) saw 

familiar saying, sometimes distorted



motto

a maxim adopted as an expression or purpose of 

often inscribed on a badge, banner

Punk rock's first great embodiment of the motto "live fast and die young," Sid Vicious joined The Sex Pistols when they were already established as the most controversial rock band in British history

Its motto instead could be, "Girls just wanna have fun." 

The new occasion is ''School Daze,'' his scathing look at a fictitious white-financed, all-black college whose motto is ''Uplift the Race.''

truism

a self-evident, obvious truth.

but it does suggest a few [pop]-song truisms

in a lower-middle-class world of soap opera cliches and sudden passions, and given his characters dialogue that sounds like the truism[s] of the desperate.

dictum

an authoritative saying, maxim 

the ultimate expression of Tati's dictum of "democracy" within the frame.

This spoofs Alfred Hitchcock's [dictum] that Psycho (1960) had to be seen from the beginning and his insistence that no latecomers be seated ("not even the [theatre] manager's brother").

edict

a decree issued by a sovereign or authority

and why would his daughters view this as an [in]surmountable edict? 



sententious

abounding in pithy aphorisms

given to excessive moralizing, self-righteous

however, it threatens to slump into the [sententious], and that is what happens here. 



。真假

ostensible

an ostensible cheerfulness [concealing] sadness. 

the ostensible [truth] of their theories. 

[Ostensibly] a commentary on modern life and the homogenization of urban culture

facade 

a mentally unstable acquaintance who sees through the [facade] the Wheelers have constructed for themselves,

With cruel words and merciless observations, he chops through their [facade] and mocks their delusions.

specious

apparently good or right though lacking real merit

even if they seemed like [specious] rationalizations for outrageous cinematic torture during a good deal of the running time.

casuistry: specious, deceptive, or oversubtle reasoning, esp. in questions of morality



verisimilitude

having (merely) the appearance of truth

The play [lacked] verisimilitude.

While one shouldn't look for [veri]similitude in a high school comedy

Tech credits all strongly but unobtrusively contribute to the sense of [period] verisimilitude.

Real Manhattan locations from Limelight night club to the Port Authority Bus Terminal [add] to the verisimilitude.

The scene, though, is taken almost word-for-word from a speech that Patton delivered on June 4, 1944. It's just one example of the verisimilitude that gives the film its superb [texture].

The fight sequences were filmed on roller skates with a hand-held camera, adding a realism that strengthens the film's verisimilitude.

veritable

Mendes looks more than ever a [veri]table [chameleon] among directors as he stages the action here -- and nonaction -- with vigor and smarts. But his very [caginess],

Even Merle Travis, a veritable [god] among guitar players but an anonymous figure to most filmgoers, got a memorable scene and song ("Re-Enlistment Blues") out of the film.

cf. voracious

veracious

Impugn means to "challenge the truth or integrity of something," "to attack its [veracity]",

veracity

habitual observance of truth in speech or statement, truthfulness

impugn, challenge the truth or integrity of something, attack its veracity.

Impugn means to "challenge the truth or integrity of something," "to attack its [veracity]",

Working with a small group of law students recruited from his classes, Dershowitz presents sufficient new evidence to cast doubt as to Claus' guilt and the veracity of the star witness, her maid.



oneiric

of or pertaining to dreams

The artistic direction is meticulous and inspired; there’s a vanguard [oneiric] look to the film. 



















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