metaphor
英 ['met?f?; -f??]
美['m?t?f?]
- n. 暗喻，隐喻；比喻说法
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词态变化
复数:?metaphors;
中文词源
metaphor 暗喻，隐喻
meta-,改变，-phor,带来，词源同bring.引申词义改变方式，用于语法指暗喻，隐喻。
英文词源
- metaphor (n.)
- late 15c., from Middle French metaphore (Old French metafore, 13c.), and directly from Latin metaphora, from Greek metaphora "a transfer," especially of the sense of one word to a different word, literally "a carrying over," from metapherein "transfer, carry over; change, alter; to use a word in a strange sense," from meta- "over, across" (see meta-) + pherein "to carry, bear" (see infer).
双语例句
- 1. 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。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. 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
来自《权威词典》
- 3. 'This vale of tears'is a metaphor for the human condition.
- “ 眼泪的溪谷 ” 是尘世的比喻说法.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. 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.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.
- 玫瑰在诗中通常作为爱的象征.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》