allegory
英 ['ælɪg(ə)rɪ]
美['æləɡɔri]
- n. 寓言
英英释意
- 1. a short moral story (often with animal characters)
- 2. a visible symbol representing an abstract idea
- 3. an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor