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
- 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。 - Metaphors are the building blocks in the user's mental model of a task.
隐喻是用户心智模型中一个工作流的基础单位。 - 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。 - Dials and sliders are idioms borrowed directly from Mechanical-Age metaphors of rotating knobs and sliding levers.
刻度盘和滑块都是直接从机械时代借用过来的习惯用法，它们分别对应旋转控制钮和滑动控制杆。 - 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。 - Write down a few of the metaphors you have for life.
写下几条你人生中所用的隐喻。 - 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。 - Do you understand the metaphors in this story now?
现在了解这些故事的比喻了吗？ - 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。 - Well-chosen analogies and metaphors can also help.
贴切的类比和比喻也会有较好的效果。