| 单词 | metaphor |
| 释义 | metaphor (metəfɔːʳ ) Word forms: metaphors 1. variable noun 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. Synonyms: figure of speech, image, symbol, analogy 2. variable noun 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 tearing itself apart. [+ for] 3. to mix your metaphors phrase If you mix your metaphors, you use two different metaphors. People do this accidentally, or sometimes deliberately as a joke. To mix metaphors, she's stabbed him in the back and he's shot himself in the foot. Despite the mixed metaphor, there is some truth in this judgement. Collocations: appropriate metaphor It seems an appropriate metaphor for the horse-human relationship, somehow: initial friction produces something harmonious in the end. Times, Sunday Times In the light of what follows, it's an appropriate metaphor. Times, Sunday Times The problem was finding an appropriate metaphor. Times, Sunday Times An appropriate metaphor would be an extremely long shopping list. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Folks have likened that voice to rain, and it's an appropriate metaphor.... can sound as lilting as a summer shower or as electric as a thunderstorm. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Somehow her lifestyle seems the perfect metaphor for her artistic personality. Times,Sunday Times The plume of volcanic ash that wafted above us was a perfect metaphor for our cloud of unknowing. Times, Sunday Times It turned out to be a perfect metaphor for a bitterly disappointing round. Times, Sunday Times It seems a perfect metaphor for his life. Times, Sunday Times A perfect metaphor, some might say, for the coalition itself. Times, Sunday Times As commentators have observed, both write with an unpretentious eccentricity, both have a flair for poetic metaphor, both convey utter emotional authenticity. Times, Sunday Times On several accounts he offered a poetic metaphor for this process, comparing it with collecting shells while walking along a beach. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Identifying and appreciating poetic metaphor. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These collectively provide imagery for extended poetic metaphors (ullurai, literally inner meaning), which set the mood of the poem. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I suppose 40 years ago they were a potent metaphor for open roads and freedom. Times,Sunday Times Fishing would, for him, become a potent metaphor for the act of writing poetry. Times, Sunday Times Her perpetual potential for confusing 'a potent metaphor' with 'an unexpected accessory'. Times, Sunday Times One account mentions him building sets for silent films a potent metaphor for what was to come. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Sport isn't real life, but it's the most powerful metaphor for real life that humanity has yet invented. Times, Sunday Times No wonder electronic hypertexts are a powerful metaphor for him: 'every text', he says, 'should be seen, in its intrinsic mode of functioning, as a hypertext'. The Times Literary Supplement Based on a powerful metaphor of musical space, this theory can be applied to pitch, rhythm and metre, or even timbre. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This highly structured geometrical scheme, called the chahar bagh, became a powerful metaphor for the organization and domestication of the landscape, itself a symbol of political territory. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 While on one level the paintings are obviously a response to the emotional turbulence of the war, they are also powerful metaphors for the ever-present, internal human conflict. Times, Sunday Times Asked why a warmer world leads to more extreme weather, climatologists fall back on a sporting metaphor. Times, Sunday Times If one person throws in sports metaphors, the other will likely parry along similar ideas. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Backed by minimalistic, synthesizer-based production, the song's lyrics incorporate various sports metaphors to describe seduction. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He cited the sportswriters of his era as an influence, and frequently used sports metaphors, especially ones related to baseball, in his writings on art and cinema. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 You can at least, to use a metaphor today's young would probably struggle with, put it back on the top shelf. Times, Sunday Times They use the metaphor of the mind as its own public-relations executive. Times, Sunday Times It shows how ridiculous politics has become that if you use a metaphor that most people would not blink at you get some concocted row. Times, Sunday Times I suppose thoughtful investors should - to use a metaphor - plant new trees but also tend to ancient forests in order to maintain diverse woodlands. Times, Sunday Times Its lyrics use the metaphor of diving, which was interpreted by critics to discuss a commitment to a relationship. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In other words, they aren't touching the elephant, which sounds like a useful metaphor for life. Times, Sunday Times I am now persuaded this was a useful metaphor for the crazy way society determines its priorities. Times, Sunday Times In fact, the hinge remains a useful metaphor by which to characterize them, for in a variety of ways cardinals were positioned at the boundary of interlocking worlds. The Times Literary Supplement He believes gardening provides a useful metaphor for how to live a good life. Times, Sunday Times A useful metaphor for production in an economy comes from the kitchen. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 You could hardly get a more powerful visual metaphor. Times, Sunday Times As a visual metaphor for their music, it was perfect: monochrome, gloomy and severe. Times, Sunday Times The looming menace of the power plant works brilliantly as a visual metaphor for the collision of lives on screen. Times, Sunday Times Secondly, the idea of searching for the right image seems, well, so right in a literary context; a visual metaphor means something. The Times Literary Supplement A decorative installation of punch bags unwittingly provides a visual metaphor for 21st-century masculinity. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 隐喻 Japanese: 比喩 |
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