Aesopic
[i:'sɔpiən; i:'sɔpik]
- adj.
- (古希腊寓言作家)伊索的；伊索(寓言)式的
- 隐藏真意(或真正目的、打算)的；掩饰(思想、感情等)的 [亦作 Esopian]
英文词源
- Aesopic (adj.)
- 1927, in the context of Soviet literary censorship, in reference to writing "obscure or ambiguous, often allegorical, which disguises dissent," from Aesop, the traditional father of the allegorical fable, + -ic. The term (Russian ezopovskii, 1875) arose under the Tsars and the style was used by Russian communists. Once they took power the word was applied by them as a charge against their own dissidents.
