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单词 cross-couple
释义 ˈcross-ˈcouple, v.
[cross- 6.]
trans. To couple things that do not naturally go together. Hence ˈcross-ˈcouple n., ˈcross-ˈcoupling vbl. n., Puttenham's term for the rhetorical figure synœciosis, ‘whereby heterogeneous things were combined or attributed to one person’.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 216 Another figure which..may well be called..the Cross-couple [marg. Syneciosis, or the Crosse copling].1681–6Scott Chr. Life ii. 363 There will be no more..such cross-coupling of Prosperity with Vice and Misery with Virtue.
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