trope

A trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs.

预期的和发生的不一致的一种修辞。

The show, iPartment, adheres the old sitcom trope of following a group of 20-something friends as they experience life in a big city.

这部名叫《爱情公寓》的电视剧，用老套的情景喜剧的方式将大城市里20岁左右年轻人的生活经历结合在了一起。

Chapter three focuses on the ways of trope formation, analyzes the change of seme and cognitive factors, with the focus being the analysis of the association in metaphor.

第三章介绍了英语词汇转义形成的基本途径。主要分析词汇中义子的变化和认知因素。其中重点分析认知隐喻中的联想因素。

Shakespearean is a trope often used to describe the machinations of Wall Street power players, but only the Bard could do justice to the treacheries reportedly playing out at the top of Goldman Sachs.

华尔街实权派之间的争权夺利常常堪比莎翁剧作，也唯有莎翁才能将当前盛传的高盛（Goldman Sachs）顶层的尔虞我诈还原出来。

Underneath this remarkably enduring and widespread trope lie two assumptions that, in their most primitive form, may trace their roots all the way back to evolutionary biology.

在这些不同寻常并且广为流传的故事中，存在两个假设，即以最原始的方式，追寻生物进化论的根源。

And the report doesn't delve too deeply into personality traits, sidestepping the common trope of popular-guy-as-bully.

该报告对于人格特质没有做深入研究，并绕开了成群结队的校园小混混这类人群。

If I were cleverer, I would think up one of those annoying, modish words such as "trope" or "meme" to describe my micro-phenomenon.

如果我更聪明一些，我或许会想出一个类似“修辞”（trope）或“文化基因”（meme）之类、恼人而又时髦的词汇，来描述这类微观现象。

And the Philosophy underlying the revival of the trope has undergone corresponding process: from objectivism to experientialism.

其中的哲学背景也相应地由客观主义转化为经验主义。

I talked to Yaacov Trope, a New York University professor who has researched how people's reactions change as they get nearer to a situation.

我去找纽约大学（New York University）教授雅科夫•特罗普（Yaacov Trope）谈了谈。他专门研究过当人们接近某一情境时，反应将会发生怎样的变化。

From the objects of trope, moral attachment and religion sacrifice, the nature goes back its original status step by step and becomes the object of aesthetic gradually. The deriving process reflects the attitude of people to the nature.

自然由起兴象征、比附道德、宗教祭祀的对象逐步显露它本然面貌，逐渐成为独立的审美对象，这一衍变过程反映了艺术中人们对自然的态度。