catachresis

英式音标：[ˌkætə'kri:sɪs]

美式音标：[ˌkætə'krisɪs]

词汇分类：真•词根词缀记忆——李平武,《剑桥语言百科全书》专业词汇,Word Menu

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. He has known great misfortune in his life.

他一生中经历过巨大的不幸。

来自《权威词典》

2. Some of my friends estranged themselves from me in my misfortune.

我倒霉时,有些朋友就疏远了我.

来自《简明英汉词典》

3. He had sympathy with those who were brought low by misfortune.

对于那些因不幸而陷入贫困的人们他表示了同情.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. It is said to be an omen of misfortune.

那被认为是一种不幸的先兆.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

5. Innocent people get into trouble on account of others'misfortune.

城门失火,殃及池鱼.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

[ misfortune 造句 ]