pathetic fallacy

音標(biāo)發(fā)音

But Mr Carey pulls the pathetic fallacy out of the hat with panache.
但是凱里用華麗的辭藻把可憐的假象展現(xiàn)在了眼前。
The old illustrator never let his pupils fall for the pathetic fallacy, that empty barrels are lonely.
從不讓他的學(xué)生受到萬物有情謬想的感染，認(rèn)為空桶是孤獨(dú)的。
He had written poems about his affair with Agnieszka, but his way with pathetic fallacy meant that even Basia could read them without guessing their true provenance.
他寫過跟阿格涅斯的風(fēng)流韻事的情詩，但他寫的那些詩，情感模糊，幻象層出，即使被巴士雅讀到也不會猜到他們的隱情。

the use by a writer or poet of words that give human feelings or qualities to objects, nature, or animals, for example by referring to the "cruel sea"

(in literature) the presentation of inanimate objects in nature as possessing human feelings