metaphor

• n. 暗喻，隐喻；比喻说法

词态变化

中文词源

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》