metaphor

noun

1. 暗喻；隐喻
   a word or phrase used to describe sb/sth else, in a way that is different from its normal use, in order to show that the two things have the same qualities and to make the description more powerful, for example She has a heart of stone ; the use of such words and phrases
   1. a game of football used as a metaphor for the competitive struggle of life
      用来喻指生活中的激烈斗争的一场足球比赛
   2. the writer's striking use of metaphor
      这位作家对于隐喻的独到运用

1. N-VAR 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.
   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
2. N-VAR 象征;标志
   If one thing is a metaphor for another, 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。
3. PHRASE 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.
   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。

1. Their work is a despairing metaphor for a society in its death throes
   他们的作品是对一个正在作垂死挣扎的社会的绝望隐喻。
2. 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. 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。
4. 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。
5. Ripe with in-jokes, self-references, and post-modern metaphor, the movie questions a too-civilized world.
   这部电影驾轻就熟地借助圈内笑话、自我指认和后现代主义的隐喻，对过度文明的世界提出了质疑。
6. This metaphor is very appropriate.
   这个比喻很贴切。
7. In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.
   诗歌中常用玫瑰花来隐喻爱情。
8. I think the metaphor is close but not quite correct.
   我认为这个暗喻接近事实但还不太正确。
9. Please define what is metaphor, and give me an example.
   请阐述什么是隐喻，然后举例。
10. To do so we use a metaphor, recipes.
    为此，我使用了一个比喻“菜谱”。
11. This is a very common metaphor in business and finance.
    这在商业和金融里面是非常普遍的比喻。
12. By means of metaphor, research on the nationality consciousness and social psychology of the Russian can be done.
    借助于隐喻可以研究民族意识和社会心理。
13. This is one meaning of the metaphor.
    这是刚才的比喻的其中一个意思。
14. This light is a metaphor for the flame of creation.
    这种光是对创造的火焰的一种隐喻。
15. The overlapping or interaction of metaphor and metonymy sometimes exists in semantic extension.
    隐喻和转喻在词义延伸中有时会交叉或相互作用。
16. Using metaphor, we say that computers have senses and a memory.
    打个比方，我们可以说计算机有感觉和记忆力。
17. As a link between cognition and language, metaphor plays an indispensable role in vocabulary teaching.
    作为认知和语言的纽带，隐喻在词汇教学中具有不可或缺的地位。
18. According to systemic-functional grammar, nominalization is an important source from which grammatical metaphor derives.
    名词化是构成系统功能语法中语法隐喻的重要来源。
19. Common language of metaphor and simile form of metaphor.
    语常见的比喻形式有明喻和隐喻。
20. Interpersonal metaphor can be further divided into metaphor of mood and metaphor of modality.
    人际隐喻可以进一步区分为语气隐喻和情态隐喻。
21. Cognitive linguistics sees metaphor from a new and higher perspective, thus providing satisfactory explanations for many language phenomena.
    认知语言学从一个新的视角和高度来解释隐喻，为许多语言现象的理解提供了理据。
22. The theory of conceptual metaphor in cognitive semantics is of importance to understand the metaphorical nature of nominalization.
    认知语义学的概念隐喻理论对我们理解名词化的隐喻本质有着非常重要的作用。
23. It is a continuum of developing from rhetoric metaphor, cognitive metaphor to grammatical metaphor.
    从修辞隐喻到认知隐喻再到语法隐喻，对隐喻认识的发展是一个连续体。
24. Metaphor is one important field of cognitive linguistics studies.
    摘要隐喻是认知语言学重要的研究方向之一。
25. Specifically, in ideational metaphor, Chinese learners tend to use verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
    在概念隐喻方面，中国学生更倾向于使用动词、形容词和副词；
26. Conceptual metaphor working in our conceptual system influences and even constructs our thinking mode.
    概念隐喻在我们的概念系统中，潜在的影响甚至结构着我们的思维方式。
27. Distinction Between Metaphor and Metonymy: Status quo and Disagreements
    隐喻和转喻的区分：研究现状和分歧
28. However, this theory separates metaphor from the context which disintegrates the dynamic organization of news reporting.
    但这一理论的缺陷是，它割断了隐喻和语境的关系，抹杀了新闻报导的动态结构特征。
29. Because of its pervasiveness and cognitive characteristics, metaphor is widely applied to the field of language study.
    由于其普遍性和认知特性，隐喻被普遍应用于语言学习领域。
30. Are we done with this metaphor?
    我们结束这个比喻了吗？

  simile metaphor【导航词义：比喻】

  simile n. 明喻

〔辨析〕一种修辞手法，常用 as 或 like 等词将具有某种共同特征的两种不同事物相比拟。

  metaphor n. 暗喻，隐喻

〔辨析〕一种修辞手法，描写某事物时，将其直接说成另一不同的事物而不用比喻词，暗示两者之间有着某种相似性。

noun

1. a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity