英：[ˈepɪgræm]
美：[ˈɛpɪˌɡræm]
epigram如何读
epigram是什么意思
n. (名词)
- 讽刺短诗
- 警句
- 机智的短诗，诙谐短诗
- 警句等的使用
- 精辟的措辞，妙语，隽语
epigram自然拼读
ep·i·gram
e p graem
epigram变形
复数:epigrams
epigram词根
词根：epigram
adj.epigrammatic 警句的；讽刺的
epigram英英释义
noun
a short, pithy, often paradoxical sentence."Youth is wasted on the young" is a popular epigram.
a short terse poem, distinguished by wit and irony.
epigram词源中文解释
也称 epigramme，指“只有一个主题并以机智或巧妙的思维转折结束的短诗或韵文”，15世纪中叶起源于古法语 épigramme，源自拉丁语 epigramma “铭文”，来自希腊语 epigramma “（尤指诗歌形式的）墓碑、公共纪念碑等上的铭文； 书面评估”，源自 epigraphein “书写、题字”（参见 epigraph）。《世纪词典》称，“这个术语后来扩展到任何表达精确、细腻或巧妙思想的小诗歌”。相关词汇： Epigrammatist。
epigram词源英文解释
Middle English epigrame, borrowed from Latin epigrammat-, epigramma "inscription, epitaph, epigram," borrowed from Greek epigrammat-, epígramma "inscription on a tomb, monument or work of art" (Late Greek, "short poem, epigram"), from epigráphein "to mark the surface of, graze, scratch a mark on, inscribe" (from epi- epi- + gráphein "to cut into, scratch, inscribe, write") + -mat-, -ma, resultative noun suffix — more at carve
The first known use of epigram was in the 15th century
epigram儿童词典英英释义
epileptic1 of 2adjective
of, relating to, or having epilepsy
an epileptic seizure
epileptic2 of 2noun
a person who has epilepsy
epilepsynoun
a disorder marked by abnormal electrical discharges in the brain, by attacks of convulsions, and by loss of consciousness
Episcopaliannoun
a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church
Episcopaliannoun
a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church
epigramnoun
a short poem ending with a clever or witty expression
a brief witty saying
epigramnoun
a short poem ending with a clever or witty expression
a brief witty saying
epigrammaticadjective
of, relating to, or resembling an epigram
marked by or given to the use of epigrams
epigramnoun
a short poem ending with a clever or witty expression
a brief witty saying
epigram 例句
1 I can resist everything except temptation is a very interesting epigram.
除了诱惑我什么都能够抵制是句非常有趣的隽语。
2 It’s the one story in which the fullness of mental life, of sedimented emotion and vivid memory, is evoked in epigrams and gestures.
3 I also insist that to a billion contemporary Chinese, Mao Tse-tung has a lot more to answer for than the merry chaos and inscrutable epigrams this opera uses to recall his reckless ardors.
4 She fills the novel with epigrams, allusions and footnotes from actual texts and literature, ranging from "The Wealth of Nations" and "The Wretched of the Earth" to Wordsworth and nursery rhymes.
5 An epigram by any other name .
6 Wills also cites this epigram by Catullus, on the subject of an invitation from Julius Caesar: “Join your party?/I might, mighty Czar,/Could I remember/quite who you are.”
7 Suddenly a surprising image or epigram will light up the scene.
一个突如其来的形象或警句突然把意境照亮.
8 As usual, Mr. Belber provides snappy dialogue that recalls an era of Hollywood movies when even the dimmest characters could come up with an epigram or two.
9 This is a fittingly mystical epigram from a writer whose characters strive for ostensibly reachable goals and, tragically or amusingly, never manage to get any closer to them.
10 Mr. Moehringer uses Sutton’s fondness for libraries to grinding effect, as an excuse to turn each sentence that comes out of his mouth into a barroom epigram.
11 A good epigram demands that the poet masters two of the most difficult things to achieve in verse, brevity and wit.
12 “I had a head stuffed full of chivalric epigrams, and the self-confidence that comes from a thorough knowledge of horsemanship and swordplay,” she writes.
13 He fashioned no stilted epigram.
他不追求夸张的警句。
14 And it indeed possesses the stylish self-sufficiency of a crisply turned epigram; like its resident muscle boy, “The Sandbox” doesn’t have an ounce of superfluous fat.
15 I was a bit uncomfortable—after the story I’d just heard—with the Callimachean epigrams having to do with flushed cheeks, and wine, and the kisses of fair-limbed youths by torchlight.
16 The Duke of Wellington never uttered the epigram attributed to him: “Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.”
17 If there’s a whiff of conservatism in that last epigram, it’s not surprising.
18 In adapting it to the stage, Mr. Hampton opened up the events described into a luxurious indoor battlefield, in which combatants exchange brittle epigrams and coded innuendos.
19 Exploring the Comptoir catalog, I was momentarily entranced by a series of Diana Vreeland-esque epigrams: “I love mixing volumes ... to be covered with flowers ... to be the center of the dance floor.”
20 Manguel writes to her once more, later that year, praising The Blue Flower, and asking to use a line of it as an epigram for his next book.
epigram 同义词
2 格言
gnomic word moral saw saying motto maxim gnome adage dictum aphorism watchword apophthegm pensée
3 讽刺诗
4 警句
epigrammatic phrase quip mot sally pensee laconicism aphorism apophthegm saying motto tag quirk witticism punch line gnome adage sententious crack catch-phrase sentence snapper zinger apothegm sententia laconism
5 讽刺短诗