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metaphor n.象征；隐喻 (1) 玫瑰在诗中通常作为爱的象征。(2) 她在运用隐喻方面有独创性。(3) 然后你只需要学习一个隐喻。(4) 让我们把各种隐喻分类。 Good writers know their way around a metaphor, where you make an analogy between two things to show how one resembles the other in some way. When a character from Shakespeare calls the world his oyster, that's his boastful way of saying that all the riches of the world are his for the taking, like plucking a pearl from an oyster shell. Shakespeare also wrote, "All the world's a stage." Oyster? Stage? Come on, Will, get your metaphors straight!

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英 ['metəfə(r)] 美 ['metəfər] (1) In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.(2) She has a striking originality in her use of metaphor.(3) Then you only need to learn one metaphor.(4) Let us distinguish the various types of metaphor. If you brag that "the world's your oyster," you're using a metaphor from Shakespeare, who knew a thing or two about figures of speech. 1[N-VAR 可变名词]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. ...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”...the writer's use of metaphor.作者对隐喻的运用2[N-VAR 可变名词]象征；标志 If one thing is a metaphor for another, it is intended or regarded as a symbol of it.   [oft N for n]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 短语]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.   [V inflects]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。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。

英语单词	metaphor
英美音标	英 ['metəfə(r)] 美 ['metəfər]
中文释义	n.象征；隐喻
英语例句	(1) In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love. (2) She has a striking originality in her use of metaphor. (3) Then you only need to learn one metaphor. (4) Let us distinguish the various types of metaphor.
中文例句	(1) 玫瑰在诗中通常作为爱的象征。 (2) 她在运用隐喻方面有独创性。 (3) 然后你只需要学习一个隐喻。 (4) 让我们把各种隐喻分类。
vocabulary简明	If you brag that "the world's your oyster," you're using a metaphor from Shakespeare, who knew a thing or two about figures of speech.
vocabulary扩展	Good writers know their way around a metaphor, where you make an analogy between two things to show how one resembles the other in some way. When a character from Shakespeare calls the world his oyster, that's his boastful way of saying that all the riches of the world are his for the taking, like plucking a pearl from an oyster shell. Shakespeare also wrote, "All the world's a stage." Oyster? Stage? Come on, Will, get your metaphors straight!
柯林斯解释	1 [N-VAR 可变名词]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. ...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” ...the writer's use of metaphor. 作者对隐喻的运用 2 [N-VAR 可变名词]象征；标志 If one thing is a metaphor for another, it is intended or regarded as a symbol of it. [oft N for n] 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 短语]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. [V inflects] 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。 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。

Metaphor World's Thing Shakespeare World N Var 可变名词 Mix