单词 | apologue |
释义 | apologue (once / 18972 pages) n WORD FAMILY apologue: apologues USAGE EXAMPLESThis 40-minute symphony is known by the title of its first movement: “Apologue: Of Rage and Remembrance.” New York Times(Mar 18, 2014) Sir Walter Scott’s judgment that the Buke is “a poetical apologue ... without any view whatever to local or natural politics” is certainly the most reasonable. Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2012) In Billy's apologue the Ministry was Tommy, one of the ladies was Liberalism, the other Socialism. Hope, Anthony, Second String(2012) n a short moral story (often with animal characters) Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper allegory, fable, parable Pilgrim's Progress an allegory written by John Bunyan in 1678 Aesop's fables a collection of fables believed to have been written by the Greek storyteller Aesop story a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events |
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