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单词 purple passage
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Definition of purple passage in English:

purple passage

noun
  • An elaborate or excessively ornate passage in a literary composition.

    (文学写作中)辞藻华丽的章节,藻绘的段落

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Wolfe won it for a couple of purple passages from his latest novel I am Charlotte Simmons, a tale of campus life at an exclusive US university.
    • Even in the more purple passages in Brideshead, there is a chastity of prose style that prevents Waugh's linguistic exuberance from boiling over.
    • It certainly adds new meaning to the notion of a purple passage.
    • We then came this purple passage: ‘It is the global, not European company, the global, not European brand, and global not European flows of capital that dominate…’
    • Although both narrators are prone to purple passages, the texture of Singer's Gothic prose remains one of the novel's strengths.
    • I'm not sure more than a handful of workers would relate to the purple passages in your editorial.
    • On the rare occasions he gets it wrong, Paddy has been responsible for some of the most highly coloured purple passages in travel literature.
    • This is hardly surprising, in view of the multiple tragedies that assailed Vierne at the time of composition, which, as detailed in the admirable notes, read like the more purple passages of the Book of Job.
    • There are few, if any, purple passages, although he can occasionally be almost lyrical about the most unlikely subjects, such as a well-made TV series.

Definition of purple passage in US English:

purple passage

noun
  • An elaborate or excessively ornate passage in a literary composition.

    (文学写作中)辞藻华丽的章节,藻绘的段落

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Wolfe won it for a couple of purple passages from his latest novel I am Charlotte Simmons, a tale of campus life at an exclusive US university.
    • There are few, if any, purple passages, although he can occasionally be almost lyrical about the most unlikely subjects, such as a well-made TV series.
    • Even in the more purple passages in Brideshead, there is a chastity of prose style that prevents Waugh's linguistic exuberance from boiling over.
    • On the rare occasions he gets it wrong, Paddy has been responsible for some of the most highly coloured purple passages in travel literature.
    • I'm not sure more than a handful of workers would relate to the purple passages in your editorial.
    • Although both narrators are prone to purple passages, the texture of Singer's Gothic prose remains one of the novel's strengths.
    • This is hardly surprising, in view of the multiple tragedies that assailed Vierne at the time of composition, which, as detailed in the admirable notes, read like the more purple passages of the Book of Job.
    • It certainly adds new meaning to the notion of a purple passage.
    • We then came this purple passage: ‘It is the global, not European company, the global, not European brand, and global not European flows of capital that dominate…’
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