交錯配列詞 (chiasmus)
指的是一對引用語的前後句的用詞交錯配列 (a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases)。是種對調詞序以造成詞意相反的對仗句。
舉例說明
看看下面的例子，便能一目了然：
A well-educated man should know something of everything and everything of something.
1、An optimist goes to the window every morning and says, 'Good morning, God!'
The pessimist goes to the window every morning and says, 'Good God! Morning!'
Anonymous
樂觀的人每天早晨走到視窗說的是「神啊，早安。」
悲樂觀的人每天早晨走到視窗說的是「我的天啊！早晨！」
2、An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity;
a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
樂觀者在每一次災難中見到機會；
悲觀者在每一次機會中見到災難。
3、Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
勿問國家為你做了些什麼，要問你為國家做了些什麼。 ------甘迺迪
4、Better is a witty fool than a foolish wit.
Shakespeare
大智若愚勝過大愚若智。 --------莎士比亞
