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metaphor

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

比喻,比拟,比方说,比喻性

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 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.

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Examples

  • 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 metaphor always," he went on presently.

  • The musician not showing any visible appreciation of the managers metaphor, Perkins immediately proceeded to uncock his eye.

  • By a noble metaphor, says Milman, the day of their death was considered that of their birth to immortality.

  • To carry out your metaphor of the tree, the graft cut from the parent stock must bear fruit for itself.