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标 题: A.Word.A.Day--antiphrasis(转载)
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2001年01月04日09:24:08 星期四), 转信
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【 原文由 Wordsmith 所发表 】
antiphrasis (an-TIF-ruh-sis) noun
The use of a word or phrase in a sense contrary to its normal meaning
for ironic or humorous effect, as in a mere babe of 40 years.
[Late Latin, from Greek, from antiphrazein, to express by the opposite :
anti-, anti- + phrazein, to speak.]
"He was murmuring something between lips decorated by a little mustache,
which gave a sarcastic touch to his clerk-like expression, a mustache
folded over his mouth like an antiphrasis, which tinged whatever he said
with maliciousness, no matter how solemn it was."
Edoardo Albinati & John Satriano, Story Written on a Motorcycle,
Antioch Review, Summer 1992.
"Perhaps Charles McGrath, in The New Yorker, sums up the ambivalence most
eloquently. `How good are these books really?' he asks, and answers: not
so good--although he does so in the more flattering antiphrasis of `good
enough that you wish they were even better.'"
Neil Gordon, The admiral, Village Voice, Jun 6, 1995.
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