英语修辞轭式搭配的用法重点.ppt

* 轭式搭配(zeugma)的定义 zeugma一词来源于希腊语zeugnynai,意为英语的yoke“轭”(一副轭套两头牲口)。 有关zeugma的英文解释,不同的词典有所不同: A figure of speech in which a single word, usually a verb or adjective, is syntactically related to two or more words, with only one of which it seems logically connected. (Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language) A word is used to modify or govern two or more words although its use is grammatically or logically correct with only one. (The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language) Zeugma makes one word refer to two items when it properly refers to only one of items. (Br