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Analyze and comment on the following.
Analyze the following dialogue and comment on the rhetoric use of homonym in italicized font. Customer: "How come your sausages taste like meat at one end, but like bread at the other? " Butcher replied: "Madam, in times like these no butcher can make both ends meet. "
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试题解析
由于同音词在发音或拼写上都是相同的,尤其是同音词,所以它们经常被用来制造双关语,以达到幽默、讽刺或嘲笑的效果。
“量入为出”是指“管理,使自己的手段足以满足自己的需要”。
肉和肉是同音词。在这里,屠夫巧妙地利用习语的结构,以幽默的方式找借口,以逃避顾客的询问,并试图掩盖他销售不合格香肠的事实。