词汇 | purple prose/passage |
释义 | purple prose/passagepurple prose/passage ALwriting that uses difficult or unusual words – used to show disapproval 辞藻堆砌的散文/过于雕饰的段落〔含贬义〕 Examples from the Corpus purple prose/passage• In his maturity what he remembered of his style of speaking were purple passages and a rather caustic irony.• Lady Thatcher will be honing her purple prose for the debate in the Lords.• William Holden plays a hack scriptwriter down on his luck, and his purple prose gives the film its biting tone. → purple prose/passage at purple2(3) |
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