metaphor

英 [?met?f??]

美 [?met?f??r]

n.

隐喻；象征物；代表物

复数： metaphors

英文释义：

a word or phrase used to describe somebody/something else, in a way that is different from its normal use, in order to show that the two things have the same qualities and to make the description more powerful, for example She has a heart of stone; the use of such words and phrases用来描述某人/某事的词或短语，以不同于其正常用法的方式，以表明这两个事物具有相同的品质，并使描述更有力，例如她有一颗铁石心肠；这些词和短语的使用

举个例子：

1.This metaphor is very appropriate.

这个比喻很贴切。

2.Confession is a bad metaphor for what those poets did.

忏悔录并不能很好地比喻那些诗人的所作所为。

3.In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.

玫瑰在诗中通常作为爱的象征。

4.A metaphor is a way of describing something by comparing it to something else.

隐喻是通过将某物比作别的东西来描述某物的一种方式。

常用短语：

desktop metaphor: 桌面比拟；桌面隐喻

Conceptual metaphor: 概念隐喻；概念隐喻理论；隐喻概念

System Metaphor: 系统隐喻；体系隐喻

economic metaphor: 经济隐喻

ontological metaphor: 本体隐喻；实体隐喻；本体隐

Structural Metaphor: 结构隐喻；结构性隐喻

DEAD METAPHOR: 亡隐喻；死隐喻；原义已消失的比喻；死比喻

metaphor theory: 隐喻理论

spatial metaphor: 空间隐喻

词汇拓展：

近义词

n. trope, figure of speech, figure, image

联想词

metaphorical隐喻般的;

analogy类似;

allegory寓言;

allusion暗示;

metaphorically用比喻地;

symbolism 象征主义, 象征手法;

literal逐字的;

symbolic使用符号的;

figurative比喻的;

idiom成语，习语;

parable寓言，比喻;

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