metaphor
n. 隱喻,暗喻; 象徵
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“有暴力意味的表達和隱喻”,例如“一石二鳥”
...the writer's use of metaphor.
作者對隱喻的運用
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.
破碎的家庭仍舊是一個繼續分崩離析的社會的有力象徵。
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...
混用更多的隱喻來說,你還沒學會走就想跑,而我又剪掉了你的翅膀。
Despite the mixed metaphor, there is some truth in this judgement.
儘管有混用的比喻,這個判斷還是有些道理的。
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
Plato � � s metaphor of the cave is crucially important to the understanding of The Unicorn.
解讀《獨角獸》的關鍵是柏拉圖的洞喻.
'This vale of tears'is a metaphor for the human condition.
“ 眼淚的溪谷 ” 是塵世的比喻說法.
In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.
玫瑰在詩中通常作為愛的象徵.
But through metaphor, he crammed layers of meaning together to produce flashes of revelation.
但是透過隱喻, 他利用圖層的重疊創作出稍縱即逝的意念.
Metaphor has been the key task in the cognitive linguistic research.
摘要隱喻貫穿於人類一切自然語言和思維之中,是認知語義學研究的重點之一.