hyperbole

英語

詞源

源自拉丁語 hyperbolē，源自古希臘語 ὑπερβολή (huperbolḗ, 「超過，誇張」)，源自ὑπέρ (hupér, 「上」) + βάλλω (bállō, 「丟，拋」)。hyperbola 的同源對似詞。

發音

• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助): /haɪˈpɜːbəli/
• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助): /haɪˈpɝbəli/

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• 同音詞：hyperbolae

名詞

hyperbole (可數 和 不可數，複數 hyperboles)

1. (不可數，修辭學，文學) 誇張法，誇張的修辭手法
   • Template:RQ:Langley Rhetoric
   • 1837, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Legends of the Province House

     The great staircase, however, may be termed, without much hyperbole, a feature of grandeur and magnificence.

   • Template:RQ:Cooper Deerslayer
   • c. 1910, Theodore Roosevelt, Productive Scholarship

     Of course the hymn has come to us from somewhere else, but I do not know from where; and the average native of our village firmly believes that it is indigenous to our own soil—which it can not be, unless it deals in hyperbole, for the nearest approach to a river in our neighborhood is the village pond.

   • 1987, Donald Trump, Tony Schwartz, The Art of the Deal, p. 58.

     The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people's fantasies. ..People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It's an innocent form of exaggeration—and a very effective form of promotion.

   • 1995, Richard Klein, 「Introduction」, 出自 Cigarettes are sublime, Paperback版, Durham: Duke University Press, 出版於 1993, →ISBN, →OCLC，第 17 頁:

     In these circumstances, hyperbole is called for, the rhetorical figure that raises its objects up, excessively, way above their actual merit : it is not to deceive by exaggeration that one overshoots the mark, but to allow the true value, the truth of what is insufficiently valued, to appear.

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   • 2001, Tom Bentley, Daniel Stedman Jones, The Moral Universe

     The perennial problem, especially for the BBC, has been to reconcile the hyperbole-driven agenda of newspapers with the requirement of balance, which is crucial to the public service remit.

2. (可數) 誇張，誇張的說法
   • Template:RQ:Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida
   • 1843, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Gates of Somnauth

     The honourable gentleman forces us to hear a good deal of this detestable rhetoric; and then he asks why, if the secretaries of the Nizam and the King of Oude use all these tropes and hyperboles, Lord Ellenborough should not indulge in the same sort of eloquence?

3. (可數，棄用) 雙曲線

   近義詞：hyperbola

近義詞

• (修辭手法)： overstatement、exaggeration、auxesis

反義詞

• (修辭手法)： 參見understatement

衍生詞彙

• hyperbolic

相關詞彙

• hyperbola

參見

• adynaton

法語

詞源

源自拉丁語 hyperbole，源自古希臘語 ὑπερβολή (huperbolḗ, 「超過，誇張」)，源自ὑπέρ (hupér, 「上」) + βάλλω (bállō, 「丟」)。

發音

• ^{（啞音h）} 國際音標^(幫助): /i.pɛʁ.bɔl/

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• 同音詞：hyperboles
• 斷字：hy‧per‧bole

名詞

hyperbole f (複數 hyperboles)

1. (修辭學) 誇張 （修辭手法）
2. (幾何學) 雙曲線

相關詞彙

• hyperbolique

派生語彙

• → 土耳其語: hiperbol

延伸閱讀

• 查看「hyperbole」在 le Trésor de la langue française informatisé [法語數位化寶典] 中的釋義。

拉丁語

詞源

源自古希臘語 ὑπερβολή (huperbolḗ, 「超過，誇張」)，源自ὑπέρ (hupér, 「上」) + βάλλω (bállō, 「丟」)。

發音

• (古典拉丁語) 國際音標^(幫助): /hyˈper.bo.leː/, [hʏˈpɛrbɔɫ̪eː]
• (教會拉丁語) 國際音標^(幫助): /iˈper.bo.le/, [iˈpɛrbole]

名詞

hyperbolē f (屬格 hyperbolēs)；第一類變格

1. 誇張

變格

第一類變格名詞 (希臘式)。

	單數	複數
主格	hyperbolē	hyperbolae
屬格	hyperbolēs	hyperbolārum
屬格	hyperbolae	hyperbolīs
賓格	hyperbolēn	hyperbolās
離格	hyperbolē	hyperbolīs
呼格	hyperbolē	hyperbolae

參考資料

• hyperbole in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
• hyperbole在Gaffiot, Félix (1934年) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français (拉丁語-法語詳解詞典)，Hachette中的內容