cataplexis

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A rhetorical device in which a threat of retribution (especially of divine punishment) is made in response to wrongdoing. rhetoric,uncountable
    — In III.v's [sc. Ben Jonson's Epicoene] final sixty lines, Morose and Truewit wish calamity on Cutbeard: 'May he get the itch, and his shop so lousy as no man dare come at him' (III.v.70-71). They focus half of their cataplexis on Cutbeard's body, which they hope will develop blotches and gout, and the other half on the objects of his trade.

词源

From Ancient Greek κατάπληξις (katáplēxis, “amazement, consternation”), from καταπλήσσω (kataplḗssō, “to amaze, astound”).
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