metaphor的中文翻译是什么意思

metaphor

US/ˈmetəfər/
UK/ˈmetəfə(r)/

n. 隐喻,暗喻; 象征

metaphor柯林斯释义

N-VAR隐喻;暗喻;比喻的说法

A metaphor is an imaginative way of describing something by referring to something else which is the same in a particular way. For example, if you want to say that someone is very shy and frightened of things, you might say that they are a mouse.

  • ...the avoidance of 'violent expressions and metaphors' like 'kill two birds with one stone'.

    避免使用“有暴力意味的表达和隐喻”,例如“一石二鸟”

  • ...the writer's use of metaphor.

    作者对隐喻的运用

N-VAR象征;标志

If one thing is a metaphor for another, it is intended or regarded as a symbol of it.

  • The divided family remains a powerful metaphor for a society that continued to tear itself apart.

    破碎的家庭仍旧是一个继续分崩离析的社会的有力象征。

PHRASE混合(使用)隐喻(指同时运用两个矛盾的隐喻)

If you mix your metaphors, you use two conflicting metaphors. People do this accidentally, or sometimes deliberately as a joke.

  • To mix yet more metaphors, you were trying to run before you could walk, and I've clipped your wings...

    混用更多的隐喻来说,你还没学会走就想跑,而我又剪掉了你的翅膀。

  • Despite the mixed metaphor, there is some truth in this judgement.

    尽管有混用的比喻,这个判断还是有些道理的。

metaphor英文释义

Noun

1. a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity

    metaphor场景例句

    Plato s metaphor of the cave is crucially important to the understanding of The Unicorn.

    解读《独角兽》的关键是柏拉图的洞喻.

    'This vale of tears'is a metaphor for the human condition.

    “ 眼泪的溪谷 ” 是尘世的比喻说法.

    In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.

    玫瑰在诗中通常作为爱的象征.

    But through metaphor, he crammed layers of meaning together to produce flashes of revelation.

    但是透过隐喻, 他利用图层的重叠创作出稍纵即逝的意念.

    Metaphor has been the key task in the cognitive linguistic research.

    摘要隐喻贯穿于人类一切自然语言和思维之中,是认知语义学研究的重点之一.

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    metaphor词性变形

    metaphors

    metaphor反义词

    simile