英美文學(xué)?？济~解釋（2）

　　【摘要】前幾天我們和大家分享了英美文學(xué)常考名詞解釋的第一部分，現(xiàn)在繼續(xù)給大家分享著部分的內(nèi)容。不知道前面的知識(shí)掌握得怎么樣了？一定要經(jīng)常復(fù)習(xí)，溫故而知新。

　　21. Classicism (古典主義)

　　A movement or tendency in art, literature, or music that reflects the principles manifested in the art of ancient Greece and Rome.

　　古典主義：一種在文學(xué)，藝術(shù)，音樂(lè)領(lǐng)域體現(xiàn)古代希臘，羅馬風(fēng)格的運(yùn)動(dòng)。

　　22. Climax (高潮)

　　The point of greatest intensity, interest, or suspense in a narrative.

　　23. Comedy (喜劇)

　　A dramatic work that is often humorous or satirical in tone and usually contains a happy resolution of the thematic conflict.

　　喜劇：輕松的和常有幽默感的或在調(diào)子上是諷刺的戲劇作品，常包括主題沖突的愉快解決

　　24. Conceit (奇想)

　　A kind of metaphor that makes a comparison between two startlingly different things.

　　奇想：一種在截然不同的事物之間建立起的比喻。

　　25. Conflict (沖突)

　　A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem.

　　沖突：故事，小說(shuō)，戲劇中相對(duì)的力量和人物之間的對(duì)立。

　　26. Connotation (外延)

　　All the emotions and associations that a word or phrase may arouse.

　　外延：包括單詞字面意思之外的或被該詞匯喚起的全部?jī)?nèi)涵的意義。

　　27. Consonance (輔音韻)

　　The repetition of consonants or a consonant pattern, especially at the ends of words.

　　輔音韻：輔音或輔音模式的重復(fù)，尤指位于詞尾的。

　　28. Couplet (雙韻體)

　　A unit of verse consisting of two successive lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming a complete thought or syntactic unit.

　　雙韻體：包括兩個(gè)相連的詩(shī)行的一種詩(shī)的單位，通常壓韻并具有同樣的格律，經(jīng)常組成一個(gè)完整的意思和句法單位

　　29. Heroic couplet (英雄雙韻體)

　　A couplet written in iambic pentameter is called a heroic couplet.

　　英雄雙韻體：五步抑揚(yáng)格的雙韻體稱英雄雙韻體。

　　30. Denotation (內(nèi)涵)

　　The literal or dictionary meaning of a word.

　　直接意義：一個(gè)詞的字面意義或詞典意義。

　　31. Denouement (結(jié)局)

　　The final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot.

　　結(jié)局：戲劇或敘事場(chǎng)景的最后結(jié)果。

　　32. Diction (措辭)

　　A writer‘s choice and use of words in speech or writing, particularly for clarity, effectiveness, and precision.

　　措詞：講話或書(shū)寫(xiě)中，出于表述清晰，言簡(jiǎn)意賅對(duì)詞語(yǔ)的使用或選擇。

　　33. Dissonance

　　A harsh or disagreeable combination of sounds; discord.

　　34. Dramatic monologue (戲劇獨(dú)白)

　　A kind of narrative poem in which one character speaks to one or more listeners whose replies are not given in the poem.

　　35. Elegy (挽歌)

　　A poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person.

　　挽歌，挽詩(shī)：專門(mén)為悼念某一死者所寫(xiě)的詩(shī)或歌.

　　36. Emblematic Image (象征)

　　A verbal picture of figure with a long tradition of moral or religious meaning attached to it.

　　37. Epic (史詩(shī))

　　An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language, celebrating the feats of a legendary or traditional hero.

　　史詩(shī)：用嚴(yán)肅或莊重的語(yǔ)言寫(xiě)成的敘事長(zhǎng)詩(shī)，歌頌傳奇中或歷史上英雄的豐功偉績(jī)

　　38. Epigram (雋語(yǔ))

　　A concise, clever, often paradoxical statement, susally in the form of a poem.

　　雋語(yǔ)：一個(gè)簡(jiǎn)明，機(jī)智，常常似是而非的陳述,經(jīng)常以詩(shī)的形式出現(xiàn)

　　39. Epigraph (引語(yǔ)/開(kāi)場(chǎng)白)

　　A motto or quotation at the beginning of a literary composition, setting forth a theme.

　　引語(yǔ)：在一部文學(xué)作品開(kāi)頭的引言，警句，闡明主題

　　40. Epilogue (結(jié)語(yǔ)/收?qǐng)霭?

　　A short addition or concluding section at the end of a literary work, often dealing with the future of its characters. Also called In this sense, also called afterword

　　結(jié)語(yǔ)：文學(xué)作品結(jié)束時(shí)簡(jiǎn)短的附加或總結(jié)性章節(jié)，常常關(guān)于作品人物的未來(lái)也作 在此意義上也可稱作 afterword.

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