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An allegory is a story, poem, or picture in which the events and characters stand for ideas, or teach a moral lesson. The surface tale can be simple (animals on a farm; a person on a road); the second meaning is the point. Pilgrim's Progress and Animal Farm are the classroom examples.
An allegory is a story, poem, or picture in which the events and characters stand for ideas, or teach a moral lessonAllegory寓言指的是一個故事、詩，或圖畫，裡面的事件和角色代表著某些想法或是要傳達一個道德教訓。The surface tale can be simple (animals on a farm; a person on a road)表面的故事可以很簡單（農場裡的動物；路上的一個人）; the second meaning is the point重點在於第二層意思。Pilgrim's Progress and Animal Farm are the classroom examplesPilgrim's Progress天路歷程和Animal Farm動物農莊是課堂上的經典例子。
It is bigger than a (like / as) and usually more sustained than one metaphor.
It is bigger than a simile (like / as)它比simile明喻（用like或as）的規模更大 and而 usually more sustained than one metaphor通常也比單一個metaphor隱喻延續得更久。
Though actually, English also used allegory for a way of reading — especially the Bible — as if the text hid another sense. That scholar's use still lives in theology; school English mostly means 'a story with a designed hidden meaning.' Formal / literary.
Though actually不過事實上, English also used allegory for a way of reading英文裡的allegory也曾經用來指一種閱讀方式 — especially the Bible特別是讀聖經的時候 — as if the text hid another sense好像文字裡藏著另一層意思。That scholar's use still lives in theology這種學者式的用法現在還活在神學裡; school English mostly means 'a story with a designed hidden meaning.'學校英文裡它主要指『一個刻意設計出隱藏意義的故事』。Formal / literary正式／文學用語。
組成Late Middle English allegorie plus English -y. Allegorie is from Anglo-Norman / Middle French allegorie (French allégorie), from Latin allēgoria, 'figurative language; parable,' also used for allegorical reading of the Bible.
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- allegoricalthe adjective: of or like an allegory
- allegoricallythe adverb: in that hidden-meaning way
原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
allegorynoun/ˈælɪɡəɹi/
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The use of symbols which may be interpreted to reveal a hidden, broader message, usually a moral or political one, about real-world issues and occurrences; also, the interpretation of such symbols.
- In theſe teſtimonies vvhich they alledge of the ſcripture there are certayne, vvhiche are vvell nere of no vvayghte, but there is none of them, but eyther it is darke vvith the myſte of allegorie: or els it dothe receyue dyuerſe and manifolde interpretations.
- As some of the finest compositions among the ancients are in allegory, I have endeavoured, in several of my papers, to revive that way of writing, and hope I have not been altogether unsuccessful in it; […]
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A picture, story, or other form of communication in which one or more characters, events, or places are used to reveal a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.
- [T]houghe ſome woordes ſpoken by the mouthe of Chriſt written in ſcripture, be to be vnderſtanden only by way of a ſimilitude or an allegory: it foloweth not therupõ [thereupon] that of neceſſitye euerye like woorde of Chriſt in other places was none other but an allegory.
- […] Abraham had two ſonnes, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman, was borne after the fleſh: but hee of the freewoman, was by promiſe. Which things are an Allegorie; for theſe are the two Couenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. […] But Jeruſalem which is aboue is free, which is the mother of vs all.
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A character or thing which symbolically represents someone or something else; an emblem, a symbol.
- [T]he Harp of Ireland, puts me in mind, of that Glorious Embleme, or Allegory, vvherein the vviſdome of Antiquity, did figure, and ſhadovv out, vvorks of this Nature.
- Among all the great men of antiquity, Procruſtes ſhall never be my hero of legiſlation; vvith his iron bed, the allegory of his government, and the type of ſome modern policy, by vvhich the long limb vvas to be cut ſhort, and the ſhort tortured into length. Such vvas this ſtate bed of uniformity!
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category-theorycomputingengineeringA category that retains some of the structure of the category of binary relations between sets, representing a high-level generalization of that category.
allegoryverb/ˈælɪɡəɹi/
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archaicSynonym of allegorize.
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archaicSynonym of allegorize.
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archaiclifestylereligionSynonym of allegorize.
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archaicSynonym of allegorize.
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archaicSynonym of allegorize.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。