metaphor
英 ['met?f?; -f??]
美['m?t?f?]
- n. 暗喻，隱喻；比喻說法
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詞態(tài)變化
復數(shù):?metaphors;
中文詞源
metaphor 暗喻，隱喻
meta-,改變，-phor,帶來，詞源同bring.引申詞義改變方式，用于語法指暗喻，隱喻。
英文詞源
- 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).
雙語例句
- 1. Despite the mixed metaphor, there is some truth in this judgement.
- 盡管有混用的比喻，這個判斷還是有些道理的。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. a game of football used as a metaphor for the competitive struggle of life
- 用來喻指生活中的激烈斗爭的一場足球比賽
來自《權威詞典》
- 3. 'This vale of tears'is a metaphor for the human condition.
- “ 眼淚的溪谷 ” 是塵世的比喻說法.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. Using metaphor, we say that computers have senses and a memory.
- 打個比方, 我們可以說計算機有感覺和記憶力.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.
- 玫瑰在詩中通常作為愛的象征.
來自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》