| 释义 |
syllepsis/siˈlepsis/n. (pl. syllepses /-si:z/) a figure of speech in which a word is applied to two others in different senses (e.g. 例如 : caught the train and a bad cold 赶上了火车也患上了重感冒) or to two others of which it grammatically suits one only (语法上的)兼用法 (e.g. 例如 : neither they nor it is working 他们和它都停止了工作) (cf. 参见 ZEUGMA) 一笔双叙法(一种修辞方法，将一个词用于两个不同意义的词) □ sylleptic adj.□ sylleptically adv.[Late Latin from Greek sullēpsis ‘taking together’, from sullambanō: see SYLLABLE] |