metaphors

英 [ˈmɛtəfəz] 美 [ˈmɛtəfɔrz]

n.  暗喻; 隐喻
metaphor的复数

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  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。
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双语例句

  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. Mental impressions such as these may be regarded as the metaphors of thoughts and notions.
    象这样的表象，一般地讲来可看成思想和概念的譬喻。
  3. We've created these metaphors and they have become the way we think.
    我们创造了这些比喻，也造就了自己的思维方式。
  4. My clients love learning the different metaphors that can be used in Business English.
    我的客户都热衷学习商务英语中不同的隐喻。
  5. In later work, they demonstrated that the metaphors were powerful enough to disrupt perception.
    在后来的实验中，研究者证明了这些隐喻效力强大，足以影响人们的知觉。
  6. Conceptual Metaphors and Their Pragmatic Functions in Logistical English Discourses
    物流英语中的概念隐喻及语用功能研究
  7. 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。
  8. Write down a few of the metaphors you have for life.
    写下几条你人生中所用的隐喻。
  9. This is one of the best metaphors I've heard.
    这是我听过的比喻当中，其中一个最贴切的比喻。
  10. 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。
  11. Almost all these metaphors neglect the translator's virtual initiative.
    但是几乎所有的比喻都忽视了译者实际的能动性的发挥。
  12. 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。
  13. English and Chinese metaphors are important rhetorical devices in two languages.
    英语隐喻和汉语隐喻分别属于两种语言中重要的修辞格。
  14. A Study of the Borrowing of English Metaphors in Chinese from Cultural and Cognitive Perspective
    从文化和认知角度看汉语对英语隐喻的借用
  15. 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。
  16. A Comparative Study of Metaphors in Fortress Besieged in English and Chinese from a Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics
    从认知角度对《围城》中英版本中隐喻的对比研究
  17. 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。
  18. There are lots of conceptual metaphors conveying abstract texts in business English and Chinese discourse.
    英汉商务语篇中有着大量的概念隐喻来再现抽象的概念文本。
  19. Well-chosen analogies and metaphors can also help.
    贴切的类比和比喻也会有较好的效果。
  20. 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。
  21. As key concepts in modern cognitive linguistics, Conceptual Metaphors are considered universal, cognitive and systematic.
    概念隐喻是当代认知隐喻研究中的重要概念，具有普遍性、认知性和系统性。
  22. 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。
  23. Metaphors are abundant both in Chinese and English automobile brand naming, in which there are homogeneity and heterogeneity.
    中外汽车品牌命名中都含有大量的隐喻，两者既具有同质性，又有异质性。
  24. The use of metaphors embodies the combination of the function of aesthetics and that of information.
    比喻的使用体现了语言的美学功能和信息功能的结合。
  25. Do you understand the metaphors in this story now?
    现在了解这些故事的比喻了吗？
  26. 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。
  27. 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。
  28. 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。
  29. 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。
  30. Yet, we still use the same old metaphors and retrieval models to manage our data.
    但是，我们仍然使用相同的隐喻和检索模型管理我们的数据。
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