英语词汇“metaphor”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

met·a·phor

(mĕtə-fôr′, -fər)

1. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in "a sea of troubles" or "All the world's a stage" (Shakespeare).

2. One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol: "Hollywood has always been an irresistible, prefabricated metaphor for the crass, the materialistic, the shallow, and the craven" (Neal Gabler).

[Middle English methaphor, from Old French metaphore, from Latin metaphora, from Greek, transference, metaphor, from metapherein, to transfer : meta-, meta- + pherein, to carry; see bher-¹ in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]

met′a·phoric (-fôrĭk), met′a·phori·cal adj.

met′a·phori·cal·ly adv.

单词	metaphor
释义	met·a·phor (mĕtə-fôr′, -fər) n. 1. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in "a sea of troubles" or "All the world's a stage" (Shakespeare). 2. One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol: "Hollywood has always been an irresistible, prefabricated metaphor for the crass, the materialistic, the shallow, and the craven" (Neal Gabler). [Middle English methaphor, from Old French metaphore, from Latin metaphora, from Greek, transference, metaphor, from metapherein, to transfer : meta-, meta- + pherein, to carry; see bher-¹ in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] met′a·phoric (-fôrĭk), met′a·phori·cal adj. met′a·phori·cal·ly adv.
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