Trope

trope







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【語】轉義,比喻



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–noun 

1. Rhetoric. 

a. any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy (轉喻), synecdoche (提喻), and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense. 

b. an instance of this. Compare figure of speech. 

 

2. a phrase, sentence, or verse formerly interpolated (插入新語句) in a liturgical text to amplify or embellish. 

3. (in the philosophy of Santayana) the principle of organization according to which matter moves to form an object during the various stages of its existence.  



liturgical 

【宗】禮拜儀式的,聖餐儀式的



　

Liturgical music is heard as Nikolai kneels in his underwear, displaying his prison tattoos, for induction [into] the crime family. "I am already dead. I died when I was 15. Now I live in the Zone all the time," he assures his examiners. 



pontificate tyro hierophant 

acolyte 

But Kevin Smit [acolytes] would insist that is the point:

protégé 

Garrel was a [protégé] of Eustache and planned this work as an homage.

orgies 

tonsure Benediction cabalism

Dissipate









　

the movie is a veritable scrapbook of tropes from the heyday of art film. 



Maybe that's why it feels gauzy and quaint. Yet time passes pleasantly. As Accio, who joins the Fascist party because he's got little else, Elio Germano is dim, scrappy, likable — Jughead as a hothead.



Jughead

【俚】愚笨而難教乖的馬,笨蛋 





　

Story is bookended by scenes on an Israeli kibbutz in 1956, where Rachel Rosenthal, nee Stein (Dutch thesp du jour Carice van Houten), accidentally meets former wartime friend Ronnie (Halina Reijn, spirited). This spurs one long flashback to WWII. The brief return to Israel at pic's end contains one rapid visual trope that may pass many auds by.





elliptical syncopate

syntax 

permutation & combination

theorem

corollary

an immediate consequence or easily drawn conclusion

as a kind of microcosmic [analogue] (and [corollary])



corroborate (confirm)

He corroborated [my account] of the accident. 

[evidence] to corroborate his testimony

opine

She opined that he would [lose] the contest. 

Castigate