metaphors
英 [ˈmɛtəfəz]
美 [ˈmɛtəfɔrz]
n. 暗喻; 隐喻
metaphor的复数
柯林斯词典
- N-VAR 隐喻;暗喻;比喻的说法
Ametaphoris 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
- ...the avoidance of 'violent expressions and metaphors' like 'kill two birds with one stone'.
- N-VAR 象征;标志
If one thing is ametaphor foranother, 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。
- The divided family remains a powerful metaphor for a society that continued to tear itself apart.
- PHRASE 混合(使用)隐喻(指同时运用两个矛盾的隐喻)
If youmixyourmetaphors, 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。
- To mix yet more metaphors, you were trying to run before you could walk, and I've clipped your wings...
双语例句
- Metaphors are the building blocks in the user's mental model of a task.
隐喻是用户心智模型中一个工作流的基础单位。 - A Comparative Study of Metaphors in Fortress Besieged in English and Chinese from a Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics
从认知角度对《围城》中英版本中隐喻的对比研究 - This is all about the Priests-the Magicians-the Trickster-the Myths and Metaphors.
这都关于祭司魔法师骗子神话和隐喻。 - Write down a few of the metaphors you have for life.
写下几条你人生中所用的隐喻。 - Metaphors are abundant both in Chinese and English automobile brand naming, in which there are homogeneity and heterogeneity.
中外汽车品牌命名中都含有大量的隐喻，两者既具有同质性，又有异质性。 - The essays are well-arranged and enriched by biblical allusions, metaphors and cadence.
这些散文不仅结构巧妙还大量使用了《圣经》的典故，隐喻和基调。 - And in the translation of metaphors, people have begun to pay more and more attention.
在翻译研究领域，隐喻翻译的方法已越来越多的引起人们的重视。 - Do you understand the metaphors in this story now?
现在了解这些故事的比喻了吗？ - A Study of the Borrowing of English Metaphors in Chinese from Cultural and Cognitive Perspective
从文化和认知角度看汉语对英语隐喻的借用 - Mental impressions such as these may be regarded as the metaphors of thoughts and notions.
象这样的表象，一般地讲来可看成思想和概念的譬喻。