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标 题: A.Word.A.Day--hyperbaton(转载)
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hyperbaton (hye-PUR-buh-ton), noun, plural hyperbatons, hyperbata
The use, especially for emphasis, of a word order other than the
expected or usual one, as in "Bird thou never wert.'
[Greek huperbaton, from neuter of huperbatos, transposed, from huperbainein,
to step over : huper-, over, across + bainein, to step.]
"`Out from him sprang the sun and the moon; from man, the sun; from woman,
the moon.' This deliberate inversion of expected logic is one of many
uses of hyperbaton in the essay.
Eric Wilson, Weaving: Breathing: Thinking: The poetics of Emerson's Nature,
ATQ, Mar 1996.
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