chiasmus

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An inversion of the relationship between the elements of phrases. countable,rhetoric,uncountable
    — The book of Habakkuk has been discovered to consist of a closely knit chiastic structure throughout. This is the first poem of such length to stand revealed as a literary unit of this kind, though chiasmus has already been discovered throughout many psalms[…]

词形变化

chiasmi plural chiasmuses plural

词源

From Latin chiasmus, from Ancient Greek χῑασμός (khīasmós), from χῑάζω (khīázō, “to mark with an X”), from χ (kh, “chi”).
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