zeugma
noun[CorU]
languagespecializeduk/ˈzjuːɡ.mə/us/ˈzuːɡ.mə/a use oflanguagein which a word that has more than onemeaningis used with onemeaningin onepartof asentenceand with a differentmeaningin anotherpartof thesentence, usually inordertoproduceahumorouseffect:
轭式搭配法（指一个多义词在句子的某一部分使用该词的一个意思，而在句子的另一部分使用该词的另一个意思，从而达到幽默的效果）"Shefiledhernailsand then shefiledacomplaintagainst herboss" is anexampleof thefigureofspeechknownas zeugma.在“She filed her nails and then she filed a complaint against her boss”这个句子中，file的用法是修辞手段“轭式搭配法”的一个例子。
Linguistic terms & linguistic style
- affricate
- allophone
- allophony
- anaphor
- anaphora
- chatty
- colloquial
- distributive
- double entendre
- downtoner
- emphatic
- entailment
- etymological
- flowery
- oxymoron
- parallelism
- philological
- polysemy
- portmanteau word
- prescriptivism
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