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catachresis

/ˌkæt.əˈkriː.sɪs/

翻译: 名词,指勉强、牵强或悖谬的词语用法;既可指误用(如把 blatant 误用作 flagrant),也可指故意为之(如混合隐喻“盲目的嘴”)。

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词语关系

noun

/ˌkæt.əˈkriː.sɪs/C2formal
  • zh名词,指勉强、牵强或悖谬的词语用法;既可指误用(如把 blatant 误用作 flagrant),也可指故意为之(如混合隐喻“盲目的嘴”)。

A noun referring to the strained or paradoxical use of words, either by mistake (e.g., using 'blatant' to mean 'flagrant') or deliberately (e.g., in a mixed metaphor like 'blind mouths').

  1. Strained or paradoxical use of wordsC2formal

    The incorrect or strained use of a word, either by mistake (e.g., using 'blatant' to mean 'flagrant') or deliberately (e.g., in a mixed metaphor like 'blind mouths').

    zh词语误用

    • The poet's use of catachresis created a striking but confusing image.
    • In his speech, he committed a catachresis by mixing metaphors about sailing and farming.
    • Some critics argue that the phrase 'the voice of the silence' is a catachresis.

    同义词abusemalapropismmisusemixed metaphorperversionsolecism

词形
  • catachreses plural form
  • catachreses' possessive plural form
  • catachresis's possessive singular form
Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset · 0.3.1

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Vocabulary data from the Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset (CC BY 4.0), https://huggingface.co/datasets/Fristail27/vocab-bloom-hub-en

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