similes

英 [ˈsɪmɪliz]

美

n. 明喻; 明喻的运用
simile的复数

柯林斯词典

明喻
Asimileis an expression which describes a person or thing as being similar to someone or something else. For example, the sentences 'She runs like a deer' and 'He's as white as a sheet' contain similes.

双语例句

There are lots of Hungry as similes in the English language, and many of them are animal-based.
在英语里面，有很多的表达饿的明喻，他们中的许多都是基于动物。
40 undergraduates were asked to fill in a questionnaire. They need transcribe some similes and metaphors cited from the two novels.
作者采用实验法对40名在校大学生进行了问卷调查，要求他们改写从小说中摘选的明喻和隐喻句子。
Many researchers at home and abroad have made further studies on the distinctions between similes and metaphors. They found distinctions syntactically or with respect to the relationship between the tenor and the vehicle.
国内外许多学者都在这一领域做了深入研究，他们大多从句法或本喻体的关系角度进行研究。
This thesis explores the distinctions between similes and metaphors, the two most common figures of speech in language.
明喻和隐喻是语言中最常见的两种修辞格，本文旨在探讨这两种修辞格之间的异同。
Using similes, the English speakers and Chinese speakers share many commonness, as well as exist some differences.
明喻使用上，英语使用者与汉语使用者存在着共性与差异性。
The kind of mental comparison that is expressed in similes or metaphors or allegories.
用明喻隐喻讽喻表示的内心的比较。
With similes and metaphors that are partially equivalent in form, the English version is preferable to a word-for-word translation;
汉语与英语近似的比喻，应采用英语的说法，最好不做字对字硬译；
Secondly, based on the analysis of metaphors, the study presents that the following linguistic forms can trigger poetic effects, including creative metaphors, similes based on creative metaphors and part of novel co-occurrences of lexical items, and unfinished sentences which interest the audience.
其次，以隐喻的分析为基础，本文进一步论述了部分具有隐喻基础的明喻和词的新奇搭配以及部分省略句能触发一系列弱隐含的产生，即触发诗意效果。
On the image retaining and conversion of animal similes and metaphors in E-C translation
论英译汉中动物比喻的形象保留与转换
It is inconceivable that a software programme can translate metaphors, similes, innuendos and colloquial phrases.
软件可以暗喻、明喻、影射以及口头吗？