The playwright Oscar Wilde was noted for his epigrams. 剧作家奥斯卡·王尔德以他的诙谐短诗著称.
His epigrams were as sharp as razors. 他的俏皮话像剃刀一样锋利。
I can resist everything except temptation" is a very interesting epigram. 除了诱惑我什麽都能够抵制"是句非常有趣的隽语。
epigram
[ noun ] a witty saying <noun.communication>
Epigram \Ep"i*gram\, n. [L. epigramma, fr. Gr. ? inscription, epigram, fr. ? to write upon, 'epi` upon + ? to write: cf. F. ['e]pigramme. See {Graphic}.] 1. A short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is often satirical in character.
Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram? --Shak.
Note: Epigrams were originally inscription on tombs, statues, temples, triumphal arches, etc.
2. An effusion of wit; a bright thought tersely and sharply expressed, whether in verse or prose.
3. The style of the epigram.
Antithesis, i. e., bilateral stroke, is the soul of epigram in its later and technical signification. --B. Cracroft.
Back in a new print is the film the French Academy once voted the country's best of all time: three hours of romance, epigram and superfine melodrama set among theatre folk in 19th century Paris.
Typified by brevity and a closing 'point', epigram is the standard brick with which many a 17th-century poetic structure, great and small, is built.