• n. 潛臺(tái)詞；潛在的意思；潛在的性格

sub-,在下，text,文本。引申詞義潛臺(tái)詞。

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.

新上映的驚悚電影《歐羅巴》背后的潛臺(tái)詞是歐洲的分裂。

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2. But he didn't have to: everyone got the subtext.

但是他也并不需要這么做: 誰(shuí)都知道這潛臺(tái)詞.

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3. The political significance of its poetic system forms a certain subtext.

它的詩(shī)性體系中的政治含蘊(yùn)構(gòu)成了某種潛文本.

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4. There is a subtext to this question.

這個(gè)問(wèn)題有另一層意思.

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5. See through it and figure out the subtext.

理解,并表達(dá)出其中的潛臺(tái)詞.

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