figure of speech

比喻,比喻法,比方说,打比方说

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural figures of speech.Rhetoric.
- : any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect.Compare trope.

nounturn of expression

Synonyms

Those are troubling numbers, for unfettered speech is not incidental to a flourishing society.
There is no such thing as speech so hateful or offensive it somehow “justifies” or “legitimizes” the use of violence.
We need to recover and grow the idea that the proper answer to bad speech is more and better speech.
Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.
The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America.
Alessandro turned a grateful look on Ramona as he translated this speech, so in unison with Indian modes of thought and feeling.
And so this is why the clever performer cannot reproduce the effect of a speech of Demosthenes or Daniel Webster.
He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.
Their opportunities and earnings are relatively small, and in order to live they must figure closely.
He said no more in words, but his little blue eyes had an eloquence that left nothing to mere speech.

比喻,比喻法,比方说,打比方说

n.名词 noun

1
plural figures of speech.Rhetoric.
- : any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, or antithesis, in which words are used in other than their literal sense, or in other than their ordinary locutions, in order to suggest a picture or image or for other special effect.Compare trope.

nounturn of expression

Synonyms

Those are troubling numbers, for unfettered speech is not incidental to a flourishing society.
There is no such thing as speech so hateful or offensive it somehow “justifies” or “legitimizes” the use of violence.
We need to recover and grow the idea that the proper answer to bad speech is more and better speech.
Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.
The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America.
Alessandro turned a grateful look on Ramona as he translated this speech, so in unison with Indian modes of thought and feeling.
And so this is why the clever performer cannot reproduce the effect of a speech of Demosthenes or Daniel Webster.
He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.
Their opportunities and earnings are relatively small, and in order to live they must figure closely.
He said no more in words, but his little blue eyes had an eloquence that left nothing to mere speech.