metaphors
n. 隐喻( metaphor的名词复数 )
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
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。
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。
I can only represent it to you by metaphors.
我只能用隐喻来向你描述它.
Thus, She's an angel and He's a lion in battle are metaphors.
因此她是天使,他是雄狮都是比喻说法.
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。
We understand metaphors intuitively, but what does that really mean?
我们凭直觉理解隐喻, 但直觉真正的意思是什么?
Metaphors have many limitations when applied to modern, information - age systems.
当应用到信息时代的系统中时,隐喻存在很多局限性.