metaphor

/met-uh-fawr, -fer/US // ˈmɛt əˌfɔr, -fər //UK // (ˈmɛtəfə, -ˌfɔː) //

比喻,比拟,比方说,比喻性

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”Compare mixed metaphor, simile.
- : something used, or regarded as being used, to represent something else; emblem; symbol.

nounfigure of speech, implied comparison

Forms: metaphors

Synonyms

André Kostolany, the 20th Century stock market whiz, had a great metaphor for the markets that dog owners might appreciate.
It was about persevering in the face of hardship, with contrasting harmonies and melodies acting as metaphors for life and death.
In April 2014, President Xi Jinping used tea and beer as metaphors to underscore friendship with Belgium, during a visit to that country.
I just think it happened to come along at exactly the moment that people were interested in that metaphor and exploring it.
But, Begley says, it may be time to trade in the hard-wired metaphor for a less misleading one.
Once again he accused the West of being unfair to Russia, bringing back his favorite metaphor, the Russian bear.
The original metaphor was: erect a wall to keep the garden of the church free from the wilderness of politics.
The scene must be a metaphor for sex, because really who does any of this?
Lepore has a different, though still linear, metaphor for the history of feminism: “a river, wending.”
To wring all that can be wrung from metaphor, note what our elected and appointed officials are not dressed as.
Your correspondent Erica gives us some quotations and epitaphs, in which the metaphor of an Inn is applied both to life and death.
"To say that the brute has awakened in a man is not a mere always," he went on presently.

/met-uh-fawr, -fer/US // ˈmɛt əˌfɔr, -fər //UK // (ˈmɛtəfə, -ˌfɔː) //

比喻,比拟,比方说,比喻性

n.名词 noun

1
- : a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”Compare mixed metaphor, simile.
- : something used, or regarded as being used, to represent something else; emblem; symbol.

nounfigure of speech, implied comparison

Forms: metaphors

Synonyms

André Kostolany, the 20th Century stock market whiz, had a great metaphor for the markets that dog owners might appreciate.
It was about persevering in the face of hardship, with contrasting harmonies and melodies acting as metaphors for life and death.
In April 2014, President Xi Jinping used tea and beer as metaphors to underscore friendship with Belgium, during a visit to that country.
I just think it happened to come along at exactly the moment that people were interested in that metaphor and exploring it.
But, Begley says, it may be time to trade in the hard-wired metaphor for a less misleading one.
Once again he accused the West of being unfair to Russia, bringing back his favorite metaphor, the Russian bear.
The original metaphor was: erect a wall to keep the garden of the church free from the wilderness of politics.
The scene must be a metaphor for sex, because really who does any of this?
Lepore has a different, though still linear, metaphor for the history of feminism: “a river, wending.”
To wring all that can be wrung from metaphor, note what our elected and appointed officials are not dressed as.
Your correspondent Erica gives us some quotations and epitaphs, in which the metaphor of an Inn is applied both to life and death.
"To say that the brute has awakened in a man is not a mere always," he went on presently.