hyperbole
/haɪˈpɜːbəli//haɪˈpɝbəli/
- n.
- 夸张法
中文释义来自 ECDICT
词源链
- 英语English
hyperbole
词源说明
From Middle English iperbole, yperbole, from Latin hyperbolē, from Ancient Greek ὑπερβολή (huperbolḗ, “excess, exaggeration”), from ὑπέρ (hupér, “above”) + βάλλω (bállō, “to throw”, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-). Doublet of hyperbola.
释义
名词noun
- 1(uncountable, rhetoric, literature) Deliberate overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.
- 2countableAn instance or example of such overstatement.
- 3(countable, geometry, obsolete) A hyperbola