subtext的意思

subtext

英式音标['sʌb'tɛkst]
美式英标['sʌbtekst]

基本解释

n. 潜台词；潜在的意思；潜在的性格

subtext 潜台词

sub-,在下，text,文本。引申词义潜台词。

subtext (n.): "underlying theme of a work of literature," 1950, from sub- + text (n.). Originally a term in Konstantin Stanislavsky's theory of acting. Earlier it was used in a literally sense of "text appearing below other text on a page" (1726). Latin subtextere meant "to weave under, work in below."

1. Europe's divisions are the subtext of a new movie thriller called Zentropa.: 新上映的惊悚电影《欧罗巴》背后的潜台词是欧洲的分裂。

3. The political significance of its poetic system forms a certain subtext.: 它的诗性体系中的政治含蕴构成了某种潜文本.