英语词汇“litotes”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

litotes

/lʌɪˈtəʊtiːz

noun [mass noun]

Ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (e.g. I shan’t be sorry for I shall be glad).Yet this definition fails to explain instances of litotes, or understatement, which is often classified as a kind of irony....

First one must register his anti-Idealism, his antipathy toward the idea becoming metonymical litotes for such.
But, if we follow Schwarzbach, Dickens's description of the street mire in Holborn is, if anything, understated - ‘mud’ is not hyperbole, but litotes.

Origin

Late 16th century: via late Latin from Greek litotēs, from litos 'plain, meagre'.

单词	litotes
释义	litotes /lʌɪˈtəʊtiːz / noun [mass noun] Ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (e.g. I shan’t be sorry for I shall be glad).Yet this definition fails to explain instances of litotes, or understatement, which is often classified as a kind of irony.... First one must register his anti-Idealism, his antipathy toward the idea becoming metonymical litotes for such. But, if we follow Schwarzbach, Dickens's description of the street mire in Holborn is, if anything, understated - ‘mud’ is not hyperbole, but litotes. Origin Late 16th century: via late Latin from Greek litotēs, from litos 'plain, meagre'.
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