metaphor是什么意思 metaphor的用法 metaphor怎么读

metaphor

英 ['metəfə; -fɔː]美 ['mɛtəfɚ]

n. 暗喻，隐喻；比喻说法

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中文词源

metaphor 暗喻，隐喻

meta-,改变，-phor,带来，词源同bring.引申词义改变方式，用于语法指暗喻，隐喻。

英语词源

metaphor (n.)

late 15c., from Middle French metaphore

(Old French metafore, 13c.), and directly from Latin metaphora, from Greek metaphora "a transfer," especially of the sense of one word to a different word, literally "a carrying over," from metapherein "transfer, carry over; change, alter; to use a word in a strange sense," from meta- "over, across" (see meta-) + pherein "to carry, bear" (see infer).

权威例句

1. Despite the mixed metaphor, there is some truth in this judgement.

尽管有混用的比喻，这个判断还是有些道理的。

2. a game of football used as a metaphor for the competitive struggle of life

用来喻指生活中的激烈斗争的一场足球比赛

3. 'This vale of tears'is a metaphor for the human condition.

“ 眼泪的溪谷 ” 是尘世的比喻说法.

4. Using metaphor, we say that computers have senses and a memory.

打个比方, 我们可以说计算机有感觉和记忆力.

5. In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.

玫瑰在诗中通常作为爱的象征.

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