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metaphor

英 /ˈmetəfə(r)/美 /ˈmetəfər/
  • n.
    隐喻，暗喻；象征，标志
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词语例句

  1. 隐喻，暗喻n.

    六级

    • We must avoid the use of metaphors.

      我们必须避免使用隐喻。

    • There is something about water that makes it a good metaphor for life.

      水的某些特质使它成为生命的一个很好的隐喻。

  2. 象征，标志n.

    • The divided family remains a powerful metaphor for a society that continued to tear itself apart.

      破裂的家庭仍然是一个持续分裂的社会的有力象征。

  1. This metaphor is very appropriate.
    这个比喻很贴切。
    来自《新英汉大辞典》
  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. This is a metaphor used to illustrate this observation.
    这是一个用来说明这一观察的隐喻。

相关短语

  • 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

词语扩展

n.
parabole
暗喻，隐喻；比喻说法
adj.
metaphorical比喻性的，隐喻性的
adv.
metaphorically隐喻地；用比喻

词义分布

隐喻
67.5%
比喻
27.5%
暗喻
3.5%
隐喻性
0.6%
比喻说法
0.4%
隐喻现象
0.3%
譬喻
0.2%

英英释义

  • n.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
  1. n.
    a way of describing someone or something by showing their similarity with something else. For example, the metaphor `a shining light' describes a person who is very skilful or intelligent
    隐喻
    • She uses a lot of religious metaphors in her writing.
      她在写作中大量使用宗教隐喻。

词源

  • metaphor暗喻，隐喻
    meta-,改变，-phor,带来，词源同bring.引申词义改变方式，用于语法指暗喻，隐喻。
  • metaphor
    From Middle French métaphore, from Latin metaphora, from Ancient Greek μεταφορά ‎(metaphorá), from μεταφέρω ‎(metaphérō, “I transfer, apply”), from μετά ‎(metá, “with, across, after”) + φέρω ‎(phérō, “I bear, carry”)