metaphor，意思是象征，隐喻。
读音：英 ['metəfə(r)]，美 ['metəfər]
释义：
（1）隐喻，暗喻， 譬喻
（2）象征
（3）比喻，比喻的说法
（4）虚拟
例句：She has a striking originality in her use of metaphor.
她在运用隐喻方面有独创性。
扩展资料
英语中的修辞手法
1、Simile
读音：英[ˈsɪməli]，美[ˈsɪməli]
释义：n. 明喻；明喻的运用
例句：Common language of metaphor and simile form of metaphor.
语常见的比喻形式有明喻和隐喻。
2、Metonymy
读音：英[məˈtɒnəmi]，美[məˈtɑːnəmi]
释义：n. 转喻（用一名称来指代与之密切相关的事物，例如用the White House来指代the US president）
例句：The overlapping or interaction of metaphor and metonymy sometimes exists in semantic extension.
隐喻和转喻在词义延伸中有时会交叉或相互作用。
3、Synecdoche
读音：英[sɪˈnekdəki]，美[sɪˈnekdəki]
释义：n. 举偶法，提喻法（用局部代表整体或用整体代表局部的修辞手段）
例句：This paper discusses the relation between metonymy and synecdoche in the first part.
本论文将在第一部分对转喻和提喻之间的关系进行论述。
metaphor英文解释：a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
metaphor
【读音】英 [ˈmetəfə(r); ˈmetəfɔː(r)] 美 [ˈmetəfər,ˈmetəfɔːr]
【意思】n. 暗喻，隐喻；比喻说法
【短语】
1、Structural Metaphor 结构隐喻 ; 结构性隐喻
2、conventional metaphor 常规隐喻
3、extended metaphor 延伸隐喻 ; 扩展的隐喻 ; 拓展隐喻
4、ideational metaphor 概念隐喻
扩展资料
metaphor的近义词
parabole
【读音】英 [pə'ræbəliː]
【意思】n. 比较；隐喻
【短语】
1、Parabole forever 工业金属
2、parabole cubique 三次抛物线
3、PARABOLE SATELLITE INFORMATIQUE 区域中国进口商 ; 区域中国买家
4、neil s parabole 半立方抛物线
5、Establishment of Parabole Discharge Model 放电抛物线模型的建立
本回答被网友采纳metaphor
/ ˈmetəfə(r); ˋmɛtəfɚ/ n [C, U] (example of the) use of a word or phrase to indicate sth different from (though related in some way to) the literal meaning, as in `I'll make him eat his words' or `She has a heart of stone' 隐喻（如I'll make him eat his words或She has a heart of stone）: striking originality in her use of metaphor 她在运用隐喻方面的独创性. Cf 参看 simile.
> metaphorical / ˏmetəˈfɔrɪkl; US -ˈfɔːr-; ˏmɛtəˋfɔrɪkl/ adj of or like a metaphor; containing metaphors 隐喻的: a metaphorical expression, phrase, etc 隐喻的说法、 短语等. Cf 参看 figurative, literal 1a.
metaphorically / -klɪ; -klɪ/ adv. Cf 参看 mixed metaphor (mixed).
朗文当代英语词典：
metaphor
met·a·phor /ˈmetəfə, -fɔː US -fɔːr/ n [U and C]
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: French; Origin: métaphore, from Latin, from Greek metaphora, from meta- ( META-) + pherein 'to carry']
a way of describing something by referring to it as something different and suggesting that it has similar qualities to that thing
→simile
She uses some wonderful images and metaphors in her writing.
a very creative use of metaphor
mixed metaphor
the use of two different metaphors at the same time to describe something, especially in a way that seems silly or funny
something that represents a general idea or quality
metaphor for
Their relationship is a metaphor for the failure of communication in the modern world.
韦氏大词典：
met·a·phor n.
Pronunciation: 'me-tə-ˌfȯr also -fər
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English methaphor, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French metaphore, from Latin metaphora, from Greek, from metapherein to transfer, from meta- + pherein to bear ― more at BEAR
Date: 15th century
1 : a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) broadly : figurative language ― compare SIMILE
2 : an object, activity, or idea treated as a metaphor : SYMBOL 2
–met·a·phor·ic \ˌme-tə-'fȯr-ik, -'fär-\ or met·a·phor·i·cal \-i-kəl\ adjective
–met·a·phor·i·cal·ly \-i-k(ə-)lē\ adverb
柯林斯高阶英语词典：
metaphor
1.metaphor metaphors
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'.
...the writer's use of metaphor.
N-VAR
2.metaphor metaphors
If one thing is a metaphor for another, it is intended or regarded as a symbol of it.
The divided family remains a powerful metaphor for a society that continued to tear itself apart.
N-VAR: oft N for n
3.metaphor
If you mix your metaphors, you use two conflicting metaphors. People do this accidentally, or sometimes deliberately as a joke.
To mix yet more metaphors, you were trying to run before you could walk, and I've clipped your wings.
Despite the mixed metaphor, there is some truth in this judgement.
PHR: V inflects
参考资料：牛津高阶英汉双解词典，朗文当代英语词典，韦氏大词典，柯林斯高阶英语词典
本回答被提问者采纳名词。
[修辞]隐喻, 暗喻, 比喻说话
英文解释：
1，a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
2，Metaphor (from the Greek: μεταφορά - metaphora, "a transfer", in rhetoric "transference of a word to a new sense", from μεταφέρω - metaphero, "to carry over, to transfer") is language that directly compares seemingly unrelated subjects. ...
3，The use of a word or phrase to refer to something that it isn't, implying a similarity between the word or phrase used and the thing described, and without the words "like" or "as"; The word or phrase used in this way. An implied comparison
例句：
In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.
玫瑰在诗中通常作为爱的象征。
Thus, She's an angel and He's a lion in battle are metaphors.
因此她是天使, 他是雄狮都是比喻说法。
n.暗喻，隐喻