"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."
双语例句
1. Europe's divisions are the subtext of a new movie thriller called Zentropa.
新上映的惊悚电影《欧罗巴》背后的潜台词是欧洲的分裂。
来自柯林斯例句
2. But he didn't have to: everyone got the subtext.
但是他也并不需要这么做: 谁都知道这潜台词.
来自互联网
3. The political significance of its poetic system forms a certain subtext.
