aposiopesis
英 [,æpə(ʊ),saɪə'piːsɪs]
美
- n. 说话中断法
英英释义
- 1. breaking off in the middle of a sentence (as by writers of realistic conversations)
英文词源
- aposiopesis (n.)
- rhetorical artifice wherein the speaker suddenly breaks off in the middle of a sentence, 1570s, from Latin, from Greek aposiopesis "a becoming silent," also as a rhetorical figure, from apo- (see apo-) + siope "silence."
词态变化
复数: aposiopeses;