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单词 metaphorical
释义
metaphorical
(metəfɒrɪkəl , US -fɔːr- )
adjective
You use the word metaphorical to indicate that you are not using words with their ordinary meaning, but are describing something by means of an image or symbol.
It turns out Levy is talking in metaphorical terms.
The ship may be heading for the metaphorical rocks unless a buyer can be found.
Synonyms: figurative, symbolic, emblematic, allegorical  
metaphorically adverb [ADVERB with verb]
You're speaking metaphorically, I hope.
Collocations:
metaphorical sense
Then he fell off his pedestal (in a literal and metaphorical sense), chipping his cloak.
Times, Sunday Times
In this metaphorical sense, people only ever go up the path, never down it or across it.
Times, Sunday Times
By 2006 the robo-monster was huge - not only in the metaphorical sense of its impact, but also literally, physically, in its overwhelming mass.
Times, Sunday Times
Is golf uniquely cruel, in that metaphorical sense?
Times, Sunday Times
But the word quickly gained the metaphorical sense of 'hungry for intellectual sustenance, thin, insipid'.
The Times Literary Supplement
Translations:
Chinese: 比喻意义上的
Japanese: 比喩的な
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