supermetaphor

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A grounding fact; a correspondance between the underlying truth and our ideas and constructions based on that truth.
    — In this way he promotes landscape into a supermetaphor, in order to expose a general tendency towards equalization.
  2. An overarching metaphor; a metaphor that encompasses several sub-metaphors.
    — The third chapter focuses on the theme of alcohol, which is a sort of "supermetaphor" of poetic distillation, encompassing all the other metaphors.
  3. A metaphor that is particularly widespread or dominant.
    — "Mother" as supermetaphor for "man's projection of the ideal" is dealt a final blow by McBride's organized exposition of the alternative: female parents and male parents — "because no one sex and no one person should be responsible for...
  4. A metaphor about metaphors.
    — Driven by the demands of undergraduate teaching, Morgan wanted to translate Sociological Paradigms into a work that would appeal not only to academics and students of organization but also to practitioners. In pursuit of this aim, he alighted upon what we might characterize as a super-metaphor: the idea that “all theories are metaphorical.”

词形变化

supermetaphors plural

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
English metaphor
English supermetaphor
From super- + metaphor.
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