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.
  1. ...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”
  2. ...the writer's use of metaphor.
     作者对隐喻的运用
• N-VAR 象征;标志
  If one thing is ametaphor foranother, it is intended or regarded as a symbol of it.
  1. 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。
• 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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• This is one of the best metaphors I've heard.
  这是我听过的比喻当中，其中一个最贴切的比喻。
• 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
• 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。
• As key concepts in modern cognitive linguistics, Conceptual Metaphors are considered universal, cognitive and systematic.
  概念隐喻是当代认知隐喻研究中的重要概念，具有普遍性、认知性和系统性。
• Cognitive approach to spatial metaphors in English and Chinese ii.
  从认知角度看汉语和英语的空间隐喻。
• 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。
• The transition of learning metaphors shows the theoretical and practical progress in educational studies.
  学习隐喻的变迁体现了教育研究的理论与实践的进步。
• Dials and sliders are idioms borrowed directly from Mechanical-Age metaphors of rotating knobs and sliding levers.
  刻度盘和滑块都是直接从机械时代借用过来的习惯用法，它们分别对应旋转控制钮和滑动控制杆。
• Conceptual Metaphors and Their Pragmatic Functions in Logistical English Discourses
  物流英语中的概念隐喻及语用功能研究
• Yet, we still use the same old metaphors and retrieval models to manage our data.
  但是，我们仍然使用相同的隐喻和检索模型管理我们的数据。