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单词 pathetic fallacy
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Definition of pathetic fallacy in English:

pathetic fallacy

noun
mass noun
  • The attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, especially in art and literature.

    感情的误置(尤指在艺术和文学中把人的感情和反应赋予无生命物体或动物)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Such intelligence prevents any recourse to the pathetic fallacy.
    • No pathetic fallacy here, nature remains impervious to human crises.
    • Wordsworth in particular used the pathetic fallacy with great seriousness, not as a decorative device, but its use declined after Ruskin's formulation.
    • Of course, thinking that the daffodils were actually extending a welcome to me is a pathetic fallacy.
    • The room had darkened, as if obeying the laws of pathetic fallacy.
    • It is the pathetic fallacy made literal - Winston's thoughts really do appear in the world, are indistinguishable from it.
    • This is not quite what Ruskin called the pathetic fallacy, that conviction of fellow-feeling between men and nature; it's more like the demonic fallacy.
    • I question this, taking it to be nothing more than idle pathetic fallacy.
    • Literary critics call it the pathetic fallacy: just as there's no such thing as a lonely mountain, there can be no such thing as a ‘selfish gene’.
    • Of late he had a deeper understanding of pathetic fallacy as Ruskin had called it.

Definition of pathetic fallacy in US English:

pathetic fallacy

nounpəˈθɛdɪk ˈfæləsipəˈTHedik ˈfaləsē
  • The attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, especially in art and literature.

    感情的误置(尤指在艺术和文学中把人的感情和反应赋予无生命物体或动物)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Such intelligence prevents any recourse to the pathetic fallacy.
    • I question this, taking it to be nothing more than idle pathetic fallacy.
    • The room had darkened, as if obeying the laws of pathetic fallacy.
    • Of late he had a deeper understanding of pathetic fallacy as Ruskin had called it.
    • Of course, thinking that the daffodils were actually extending a welcome to me is a pathetic fallacy.
    • No pathetic fallacy here, nature remains impervious to human crises.
    • Wordsworth in particular used the pathetic fallacy with great seriousness, not as a decorative device, but its use declined after Ruskin's formulation.
    • Literary critics call it the pathetic fallacy: just as there's no such thing as a lonely mountain, there can be no such thing as a ‘selfish gene’.
    • It is the pathetic fallacy made literal - Winston's thoughts really do appear in the world, are indistinguishable from it.
    • This is not quite what Ruskin called the pathetic fallacy, that conviction of fellow-feeling between men and nature; it's more like the demonic fallacy.
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