英语释义

• 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

片语

derivative metaphor派生隐喻

similarity metaphor相似性隐喻

extended metaphor扩展隐喻（extend metaphor的过去分词）

parabole（修辞）对比；相似

DEAD METAPHOR亡隐喻（通过长期使用而失去其隐喻义的词或短语）

Structural Metaphor结构隐喻

conventional metaphor常规隐喻

ideational metaphor概念隐喻

computer metaphor计算机隐喻

animal metaphor动物隐喻

英汉例句

• extending this metaphor of fire-as-gift, the first chapter of the book describes the great gift we have today with modern technology, especially computer technology.

  延伸了这个火的礼物的比喻，本书的第一章描绘了当今我们所拥有的伟大礼物现代科技，特别是计算机技术。

• this is a metaphor for how much we need love and how much we need to be needed.

  这是一个隐喻，它折射出我们是多么需要爱，同时我们又是多么需要被别人需要。

• use a symbol or metaphor in your story or scene, and have characters talk about it.

  在你的故事或场景中使用象征或暗喻，并且让你的人物谈论它。

• that’s when the power of metaphor shines through and becomes something useful to them, helping them survive turbulent change or reach for that next big goal.

  这时隐喻的力量就开始闪现并成为对他们有用的事物，帮助他们挺过混乱的变化或实现下一个目标。

• so i like this tree metaphor here.

  所以我比较喜欢这样的树的比喻。

• 「this vale of tears」is a metaphor for the human condition.

  「 眼泪的溪谷 」 是尘世的比喻说法.

• a game of football used as a metaphor for the competitive struggle of life

  用来喻指生活中的激烈斗争的一场足球比赛

• in poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.

  诗歌中常用玫瑰花来隐喻爱情。

• either you descend into flowery metaphor or you indulge in the 「naming of parts」.

  你或者浸淫在华丽的比喻里，或者沉迷于「玩意儿的名字」中。

• if all goes well, frankenstein will not be the best metaphor for synthetic biologists; they may be more like pandora opening her box –but releasing the hope without the woe.

  如果一切进展顺利，科学怪人将不会成为合成生物学家的最好比喻；他们或许更像是打开宝盒的潘多拉——但释放的是希望而非灾难。

• the answer again goes back to the global metaphor of the desktop.

  答案又要追溯到整体桌面隐喻.

• those opposing action on climate change understand this well and frequently use images of electric light at night in their publicity as a metaphor for excitement, civilisation, and progress.

  那些反对环保行动的人深知这一点，经常在他们的宣传中使用夜晚电灯的形象，作为兴奋、文明和进步的隐喻。

• he recollected cronshaw's whimsical metaphor of the persian carpet.

  他回忆克朗肖经常谈起的那个波斯地毯的寓言.

• what i love about this metaphor is how it works on two levels.

  我喜欢这个比喻的原因是它在两个不同的层面同样适用。

• in scripture, god, through the prophets, uses the institution of marriage — which he designed — as a metaphor for the relationship he desires to have with his people.

  在圣经中，上帝通过先知，用他所设计的婚姻的定律作为一种关系的隐喻，他渴望与他的信徒在一起。

• this metaphor is very appropriate.

  这个比喻很贴切.

• in poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.

  玫瑰在诗中通常作为爱的象征.

• as i said before an assertion a statement of truth an assertion of any kind is the utterance of a metaphor because the deep structure of any assertion is that a is b.

  正如我之前所说，一个表判断句子，是一种对事实的陈述,一切表示判断的句子说出口后都变成了隐喻,因为所有的判断句的实质结构为，甲是乙。

• it was a good metaphor for the confusion of the time.

  这对当时混乱的局势是一个很好的暗喻。

• gleick: that makes sense as long as this metaphor does not diminish our sense of what the universe is but expands our sense of what a computer is.

  格莱克：只要这个隐喻没有削弱我们对于宇宙的认知，反而扩展了我们对于计算机的认识，那它就是有意义的。

• a great metaphor used by one of the speakers was that we have damaged our planet so much that we need to almost switch off for a while so it can recover.

  其中的一个演讲者用了一个精彩的暗喻：我们已经如此多的损害了我们的星球，我们差不多需要关掉一会来使它恢复过来；

相反词

simile明喻；直喻