“parabole”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

parabole

释义

‖ parabole|pəˈræbəliː|
[a. Gr. παραβολή comparison, analogy (see parable); formerly in Latinized form parabola.]
1. Rhet. A comparison, a metaphor (in the widest sense); spec. a simile drawn from the present.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. ix. (Arb.) 251 The Greekes call it Parabola, which terme is also by custome accepted of vs: neuerthelesse we may call him in English the resemblance misticall.1678Phillips (ed. 4), Parabola, a Similitude of a thing: In Rhetorick it is a similitudinary speech whereby one thing is uttered and another signified; as in this Example; ‘As Cedars beaten with continual storms, so great men flourish’.1828Webster, Parabole, in oratory, similitude; comparison.
†2. Geom. = parabola. Obs. rare.
1684T. Baker Geometr. Key 10 Though no necessity of invoking a Parabole..to midwife forth the two first classes of Equations.

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