figurative
adj. 比喻的; 写实的
If you use a word or expression in a figurative sense, you use it with a more abstract or imaginative meaning than its ordinary literal one.
...an event that will change your route — in both the literal and figurative sense.
一个无论从字面还是比喻意义上来说都将改变你的路线的事件
Figurative art is a style of art in which people and things are shown in a realistic way.
His career spanned some 50 years and encompassed both abstract and figurative painting.
他的职业生涯延续了大约50年,作品既有抽象画也有写实画。
1. (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech;
2. consisting of or forming human or animal figures;
Similar and similarity surplus are a pair of chief categories of figurative thinking.
相似和相似剩余是形象思维的一对主要思维范畴.
He imprisoned her, in a figurative sense.
在比喻的意义上,他把她关在牢里了.
The figurative speech used with animal names is an important component part of English rhetoric.
分析了英汉语言中动物名称隐喻所具有的特点,产生的原因及它们之间的异同.
Here the word is used in a figurative sense.
这里该字是在比喻的意义上使用的.
When the meaning in extension is father from the original meaning, it is more figurative.
当词义从本义向隐喻方向延伸的时候,离本义越远, 修辞性就越强.