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
- 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。 - 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。 - Metaphors helped structure these critical design features and made for good marketing copy but were never the main appeal.
隐喻有助于组织这些关键的设计特性和开辟好的市场份额，但它从来不是主要的吸引力。 - Cognitive approach to spatial metaphors in English and Chinese ii.
从认知角度看汉语和英语的空间隐喻。 - We've created these metaphors and they have become the way we think.
我们创造了这些比喻，也造就了自己的思维方式。 - This means that structural metaphors are grounded in our experience.
这意味着结构隐喻根植于我们的经验。 - 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。 - As key concepts in modern cognitive linguistics, Conceptual Metaphors are considered universal, cognitive and systematic.
概念隐喻是当代认知隐喻研究中的重要概念，具有普遍性、认知性和系统性。 - 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。 - And in the translation of metaphors, people have begun to pay more and more attention.
在翻译研究领域，隐喻翻译的方法已越来越多的引起人们的重视。