catachresis

英式音标：[ˌkætə'kri:sɪs]

美式音标：[ˌkætə'krisɪs]

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概况：

n. 用词不当；词形更改；修辞手法生硬而自相矛盾的误用

词义：

n.

用词不当，修辞生硬且自相矛盾的误用，词形更改；

英英释义

catachresis[ ,kætə'kri:sis ]

n.strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')

用法：

权威例句

CATACHRESIS

The European Union and Border Conflicts: Catalysis, catachresis: the EU's impact on the Cyprus conflict

Metaphor, Catachresis and Equivalence: The Rhetoric of Freedom to Fly in the Struggle over Aviation Policy in the United Kingdom

Metaphor, catachresis and equivalence: the rhetoric of Freedom to Fly in the struggle over aviation policy in the United Kingdom [Pa...

Multiculturalism and the catachresis of otherness: Settling Gypsies, unsettling Gypsy belongings

"He and His Man": Allegory and Catachresis in J. M. Coetzee's Nobel Lecture

Catalysis, catachresis: The EU’s impact on the Cyprus conflict

In Memory of Meishu Film: Catachresis and Metaphor in Theorizing Chinese Animation

Kant's Strange Light: Romanticism, Periodicity, and the Catachresis of Genius

Coleridge’s Philosophy of Prayer: Responsibility, Parergon, and Catachresis

同义词：misnomer

英语词源：

catachresis (n.)

1580s, from Latin catachresis, from Greek katakhresis "misuse" (of a word), from katakhresthai "to misuse," from kata- "down" (here with a sense of "perversion;" see cata-) + khresthai "to use" (see hortatory). Related: Catachrestic; catachrestical; catachrestically.

造句：

1. A flock of birds flew towards us slowly from far away.

一群鸟儿从远处朝我们缓缓飞来。

来自柯林斯例句

2. A flock of birds was already warbling a cheerful morning chorus.

一群鸟儿已经齐声唱起了欢快的晨曲。

来自柯林斯例句

3. They kept a small flock of sheep.

他们养了一小群羊。

来自柯林斯例句

4. A flock of crows wheeled overhead.

一群乌鸦在头顶上盘旋。

来自柯林斯例句

5. a small flock of laying hens

一小群下蛋的母鸡

来自《权威词典》

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