antiphrasis
英 [æn'tɪfrəsɪs]
美[æn'tɪfrəsɪs]
- n. 反用法；反语；反语法
英英释义
- 1. the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal sense (especially in irony)
双语例句
- 1. It was a bold antiphrasis that gave such a vernal title to this birthplace of icebergs.
- 给这座冰山发源地这样一个温柔的称号真是大胆的反语法.
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英文词源
- antiphrasis (n.)
- 1530s, from Latin antiphrasis, from Greek antiphrasis, from antiphrazein "to express (something) by the opposite," from anti- (see anti-) + phrazein "to consider, to express" (see phrase (n.)).