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
- In later work, they demonstrated that the metaphors were powerful enough to disrupt perception.
在后来的实验中，研究者证明了这些隐喻效力强大，足以影响人们的知觉。 - 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 - English and Chinese metaphors are important rhetorical devices in two languages.
英语隐喻和汉语隐喻分别属于两种语言中重要的修辞格。 - There are lots of conceptual metaphors conveying abstract texts in business English and Chinese discourse.
英汉商务语篇中有着大量的概念隐喻来再现抽象的概念文本。 - 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 - In the diary that day, I used nearly ten metaphors to describe her smile.
在当天的日记里，我对她的笑容用了近十个比喻。 - 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。 - Well-chosen analogies and metaphors can also help.
贴切的类比和比喻也会有较好的效果。 - 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。 - 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。