| 单词 | metonymically |
| 例句 | Winter, in the west, is often depicted as metonymically hopeless. In a world moving at breakneck speed, growing indoor plants is teaching me patience | Mel Campbell 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z But they now define those wars – and they do so through their horror, with the suffering they portray linked metonymically to the conflicts in which it occurred. Death and horror: there's no spectacle we so eagerly pursue – but can we see it for what it is? 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z The name was then metonymically transferred to the repository in which that relic was preserved, and afterwards, by a natural expansion, became the ordinary designation of the smaller sanctuaries. Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 The word hukm, which commonly signifies the exercise of government or judicial power, is here used metonymically in the sense of the place of dominion, the seat of government. Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp |
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