夸张(Hyperbole)又称为夸饰,即为了表达的需要,故意言过其实,对客观的事物或人物进行扩大或缩小的描述。 夸张修辞常见又分为两种形式,其一是"利用数字或表示数量的词组进行夸张"(即上面第二句例句,其中的a thousand and one jobs意思就等同于many jobs);其二是"通过强化某些词语的语义进行夸张描述"(即上面第一句、...
这是一种比喻的说法。I didn't really mean my partner is a snake; it was just a figure of speech.我并非真的说我的合伙者是条蛇,这不过是种形象化的说法。
This well-frotted broth of twaddle is then left to fester in the wilderness, until a naturally forming bacteria of highly funky opinions begins to appear, once sufficient levels of misguided, know-nothing hyperbole have accumulated, the whole thing is subdued by the warm, homogenising comfort b...
long, cold, winter and a spring that sputtered but never really started. Nice enough that yesterday I picked up my golf sticks for the first time in many years. Other than a couple of rounds at various clubs, it has been over 50 years since I was a player in college with a 9 ...
Was given a jerry can of diesel when a coworker was moving to Hawaii. The heater’s wick did not do well with that diesel; much of the ends of the wick burned. Not sure if it was ISO std diesel. Lord knows if it had gasoline mixed in for reasons. Still, I found that unvented...
Next stop, further north along the coast, we enjoyed yet more lobster near Bar Harbour at Archie’s, where my credit card was declined: Lobster rolls and steamed clams Much is made of Maine lobster, but it is in fact not hyperbole. Unlike Canada’s attempt to claim maple syrup and Singa...
Donald Trump says, out loud, that that’s EXACTLY the kind of power he wants, the complete power he must be given. If he gets his second chance, the same second chance that Hitler was given, wave goodbye to American democracy. If you are one of the people who is so absorbed in your...
but songs such as "Cold" on his newStarting Overalbum begin new tributaries. Over time — much less time than you'd think — the shape and direction of his artistry changes into something quite unique but equally spectacular and important. Remember that, once, this man was just a songwriter...
Incidentally, I couldn’t find a copy online of my NEL edition’s cover art, hence the current Hodder edition shown above. Still, look at that hyperbole“the Hugo-winning bestseller they wanted to ban”. It doesn’t say who wanted to ban it – lovers of good literature, perhaps. If it...
The book is a heady ride through a cherry-picked crop of impressive discoveries in science and medicine, all of them made when the human body was pushed to what we now think of as its limits. And Fong weaves in his own personal experiences so that in places it feels like a thinly ...