单词 | a story within a story |
释义 | > as lemmasa story within a story d. a story within a story and variants, a story, performance, etc., complete in itself but occurring within another. Cf. a play within a play at play n. 16c. ΚΠ 1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. at Within A musical within a musical. 1971 J. Gores in ‘E. Queen’ Magicians of Mystery (1976) 162 A new kind of procedural detective story..it uses the dream ‘story-within-a-story’ which antedates even..The Vision of Pierce Plowman. 1976 C. Bermant Coming Home ii. ii. 125 A plump, bespectacled woman..grasped him in a tearful embrace. Was this a drama within a drama, a man who had thought he'd lost his wife and would rather that she had stayed lost? 1978 Listener 19 Jan. 86/3 Fitzgerald was featured creating one of his..short stories... This device allowed for a film within a film. 1984 B. Paul Renewable Virgin ii. 38 There was some sort of a crime-within-a-crime just waiting to be discovered. < as lemmas |
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