figurative
adj. 比喻的; 寫實的
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.
一個無論從字面還是比喻意義上來說都將改變你的路線的事件
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.
他的職業生涯延續了大約50年,作品既有抽象畫也有寫實畫。
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.
相似和相似剩餘是形象思維的一對主要思維範疇.
He imprisoned her, in a figurative sense.
在比喻的意義上,他把她關在牢裡了.
The figurative speech used with animal names is an important component part of English rhetoric.
分析了英漢語言中動物名稱隱喻所具有的特點,產生的原因及它們之間的異同.
Here the word is used in a figurative sense.
這裡該字是在比喻的意義上使用的.
When the meaning in extension is father from the original meaning, it is more figurative.
當詞義從本義向隱喻方向延伸的時候,離本義越遠, 修辭性就越強.