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.
  1. ...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”
  2. ...the writer's use of metaphor.
     作者对隐喻的运用
• N-VAR 象征;标志
  If one thing is ametaphor foranother, it is intended or regarded as a symbol of it.
  1. 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。
• 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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• Well-chosen analogies and metaphors can also help.
  贴切的类比和比喻也会有较好的效果。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 as a form of reasoning by analogy involve categorization, entailment and inference.
  隐喻是一种形式的类比推理涉及分类，蕴涵和推理。
• 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。
• This is all about the Priests-the Magicians-the Trickster-the Myths and Metaphors.
  这都关于祭司魔法师骗子神话和隐喻。
• The transition of learning metaphors shows the theoretical and practical progress in educational studies.
  学习隐喻的变迁体现了教育研究的理论与实践的进步。
• 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。
• 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。