名词象征; 隐喻，暗喻
名词
1. In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.
玫瑰在诗中通常作为爱的象征。
2. Thus, She's an angel and He's a lion in battle are metaphors.
因此她是天使，他是雄狮都是比喻说法。
1. metaphor在线翻译
1. 隐喻, 暗喻：第九节 情态动词 第十节 介词的使用 第十一节 一致原则 第十二节 强调和省略 第三章 完形填空题型对策 第四章 篇章改错题型对策 第五章 常考英语修辞手法 第一节 直喻/明喻(Simile) 第二节 隐喻/暗喻(Metaphor) 第三节 对偶(A
1. 隐喻;暗喻;比喻的说法
A metaphor is 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.
metaphor的近义词
e.g. ...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”
e.g. ...the writer's use of metaphor.
作者对隐喻的运用
2. 象征;标志
If one thing is a metaphor for another, it is intended or regarded as a symbol of it.
e.g. 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。
3. 混合(使用)隐喻(指同时运用两个矛盾的隐喻)
If you mix your metaphors, you use two conflicting metaphors. People do this accidentally, or sometimes deliberately as a joke.
e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。