| 单词 | metaphoric |
| 释义 | metaphoric (once / 93066 pages) adj Something metaphoric is figurative or symbolic — in other words, it's a metaphor. Your mom might use the metaphoric phrase "disaster area" when she talks about your bedroom. Metaphoric speech or writing emphasizes the similarities between two fundamentally different things, by having one stand for, or represent, the other. For example, the famous line in the play "As You Like It" by Shakespeare, "All the world's a stage," is metaphoric — "a stage" is a metaphor for "all the world." You can also use the adjective metaphorical to mean the same thing. The Greek root of both is metaphora, "a transfer" or "a carrying over." WORD FAMILYmetaphor: metaphoric, metaphorical, metaphors+/metaphorical: metaphorically USAGE EXAMPLESIn any event, "exorcise" may have a metaphoric meaning here. New York Times(Oct 04, 2016) Literal and metaphoric; personal, familial, cultural and historic. Los Angeles Times(Sep 06, 2016) Their power is real not metaphoric, and the self-interest that drives it is far more squalid than it is poetic. Los Angeles Times(Aug 24, 2016) adj expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another metaphoric language Syn metaphorical figurative, nonliteral (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech |
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