单词 | zeugma |
例句 | This is a zeugma: the intentional juxtaposition of different senses of a single word. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z One example at random: "You may not make the headlines, but you can always make the difference" – a zeugma there. Gordon Brown invokes Demosthenes and Cicero - badly 2010-05-04T17:36:00Z A few may think of rhetoric as a deadly classical discipline devoted to the exhaustive parsing and labeling of figures of speech: zeugma, anyone? “Tubes”: What the Internet is made of 2012-05-28T00:30:00Z There is a zeugma in speaks as applied to ‘thunder’ and ‘chains,’ unless it be taken as in both cases equivalent to denounces. Milton's Comus He adds, from a gloss in the Guelferbytan MS., that it is a zeugma. Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War |
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