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
- Mental impressions such as these may be regarded as the metaphors of thoughts and notions.
象这样的表象，一般地讲来可看成思想和概念的譬喻。 - In later work, they demonstrated that the metaphors were powerful enough to disrupt perception.
在后来的实验中，研究者证明了这些隐喻效力强大，足以影响人们的知觉。 - A Study of the Borrowing of English Metaphors in Chinese from Cultural and Cognitive Perspective
从文化和认知角度看汉语对英语隐喻的借用 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - My clients love learning the different metaphors that can be used in Business English.
我的客户都热衷学习商务英语中不同的隐喻。 - This is one of the best metaphors I've heard.
这是我听过的比喻当中，其中一个最贴切的比喻。 - Conceptual Metaphors and Their Pragmatic Functions in Logistical English Discourses
物流英语中的概念隐喻及语用功能研究 - Write down a few of the metaphors you have for life.
写下几条你人生中所用的隐喻。