中文词源
hyperbole 夸张
hyper-,超过的，向上的，-boll,扔，词源同ball,ballet,ballistic.即向上扔的，引申词义夸张。
英语词源
- hyperbole (n.)
- early 15c., from Latin hyperbole, from Greek hyperbole "exaggeration, extravagance," related to hyperballein "to throw over or beyond," from hyper- "beyond" + bole "a throwing, a casting, the stroke of a missile, bolt, beam," from bol-, nominative stem of ballein "to throw" (see ballistics). Rhetorical sense is found in Aristotle and Isocrates.
权威例句
- 1. American humor is founded largely on hyperbole.
- 美式幽默主要以夸张为基础.
- 2. The phrase is of course a hyperbole.
- 这句话当然有些夸张.
- 3. Prochazka loved to regale his friends with hyperbole and excess.
- 普罗恰兹卡喜欢用夸张、过激的话与朋友逗乐.
- 4. Liver of goose saying fertilizer is aristocratic food also is not hyperbole.
- 说肥鹅肝是贵族食品也不为夸张.
- 5. Hyperbole and understatement are two chief rhetorical figures in English language.
- 夸张与含蓄陈述是英语中两种主要的修辞手段.
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