metaphor
美 [ˈmetəˌfɔr] 
英 [ˈmetəfə(r)]
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复数：metaphors 同义词
英汉双解
1. | 暗喻；隐喻a word or phrase used to describe sb/sth else, in a way that is different from its normal use, in order to show that the two things have the same qualities and to make the description more powerful, for exampleShe has a heart of stone ; the use of such words and phrases |
| 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 |
| the writer's striking use of metaphor 这位作家对于隐喻的独到运用 |
英汉解释
n. | 1. 【语】隐喻,暗喻;(某种概念,品质或情况等的)象征 |
英英解释
例句
Just how much of the subject matter does the photographer have to change before fact becomes fiction, or a photograph becomes metaphor?
只是在真实变为虚构，或照片变为隐喻之前，摄影师得改变多少内容？
One of the appeals of this movie to me was that there was no metaphor.
他说，对我来说，这部片子的一个吸引力在于没有隐喻。
The reason the Keepers give the metaphor of a roller coaster is to make sure you think of this in terms of fun.
保管者以过山车的比喻讲出来是为了让你觉得它很有趣。
It may be the metaphor of that the unreligious is mortal , but I believe in nihility fatally .
这也许是因为非宗教即是尘世，而我很不幸地信仰虚无。
Kelly: But as you note, some scientists say that this is not a metaphor: The universe we know is only information.
凯利：但正如你所指出的那样，一些科学家认为这并不隐喻：我们所知道的宇宙仅仅是信息而已。
The "war" metaphor, incidentally, had been playing out for weeks, stoked by IBM and Jeopardy! to build public interest in the tournament.
顺便说一下，数周之前“战争”这一比喻就已经由IBM公司和《危险边缘》节目组放出来了，其目的是为了建立起公众对该锦标赛的兴趣。
Archimedean point is metaphor derived from Archimedes' alleged saying that if he had a fulcrum and a lever, he could move the earth.
阿基米德点是一个比喻，典出阿基米德宣称说：假如他有一个支点及槓杆，他能够移动地球。
The same metaphor, it seems to me, might apply to the G. O. P. pursuit of the White House next year.
在我看来，同样的比喻可以用在共和党人明年对白宫的追逐。
Another cybernetician, Gerald Weinberg, supplies a fine metaphor for requisite complexity in his book On the Design of Stable Systems.
另外一位控制论专家，杰拉尔德•温伯格，在他的著作《论稳定系统的设计》中给这个“必要的复杂性”提供了一个非常贴切的比喻。
Washing your hands of a situation is a powerful metaphor. But scientists got to wondering could it be something more?
金盆洗手是个很好的隐喻，但是科学家们想知道洗手还能带来哪些好处。
It should be careful that it doesn't also become a metaphor for trying to do too much.
它应当注意，不要同时成为贪多务得的象征。
The Wall, and the sense of incomprehension that goes with it, also stands as a metaphor for global investors' current worries.
长城及其隐含的隔阂感，也可视作全球投资者当前忧虑的象征。
I've been trying to think of a metaphor to represent Mission Blue, and this is what I came up with.
我一直在想一个比喻来代表蓝色运动，这是我想到的。
LOVE is an important component of the emotional life of human, which is usually conveyed by the measure of metaphor.
爱情是人类情感生活中的一个重要组成部分，常常通过隐喻的手段表达。
For him, the Great Wall was a metaphor for the way China's society was organised and its relationship with the rest of the world.
在他看来，长城象征着中国社会的组织方式及其与世界其它地区的关系。
In the song Mayer uses the metaphor of driving away from his parents house, crying, in the dark.
在歌曲中，Mayor用到了他从父母住处驾车离开，在黑暗中痛哭的暗指。
He used a biblical metaphor: you only need one King David, and an army of soldiers who merely had to be able to carry out orders.
他用了一个圣经的隐喻：「你只需要一个王者大卫，和一支只要能遵守秩序的军队」。
It means one of the best times is in the morning, metaphor a man should be in the morning to plan for the day.
这意味着一个最好的时代是在上午，比喻一个人应在早晨计划一天。
Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.
跑步作为生活最大的隐喻，因为没有付出就没有回报。
Don: I'm trying to write a poem to my sweetheart. Can you think of a good metaphor for love?
我准备尝试给我的爱人写一首诗。你能想出一个好的比喻来形容爱吗？
Postmodernism with symbolism and metaphor greatly influences art, literature, architecture, etc.
后现代主义用象征和隐喻对艺术、文学、建筑等产生了重大影响。
So if I had to think of some kind of occupation as a metaphor for my work, I would much rather be a fisherman.
由此，如果要找一种工作来比喻我在干的活，我宁可当一个渔夫。
And it's sort of a metaphor for me for the virtual world.
对我来说，它是对虚拟世界的一个比喻。
This is a metaphor for how much we need love and how much we need to be needed.
这是一个隐喻，它折射出我们是多么需要爱，同时我们又是多么需要被别人需要。
He uses the word "currency" as a metaphor for an inner language to make sense of the world.
他把单词“货币”比作一种使世界变得有意义的内在语言。
Despite the power of wind, water and fire, the garden appears as a metaphor of the weakness and vulnerability of the city and the culture.
尽管有风、水、火的力量，但公园仍显得虚弱和不堪一击，而这正象征了城市和文化。
XP uses "metaphor" in an attempt to define an overall coherent theme to which both developers and business clients can relate.
而XP使用“隐喻”定义一个从开发者到商业客户都可联系的全面一致的主题。
As I became a man, I grew to understand that this was not just a child's game but a metaphor for what I might do with my life.
等我长大成人之后，我渐渐懂得了这不仅仅是一个小孩的游戏，而且象征着一种人生观。
In the tree metaphor, the leaves refer to elements that do not contain any other elements, like leaves on the end of a branch.
在树环境中，叶是指不包含任何其他元素的元素，就像树枝末端的树叶一样。
Implicit in this metaphor is the concept of the state as a work of art, shaped by the architect-like ruler into the proper form he desires.
这个比喻把政府比作了一件艺术作品，由像建筑师般的统治者按他的意愿构筑成合适的形式。
In the new metaphor the whole planet and everything living and inert on it behaves "as if" it were a living organism.
在这个新的映像中，整个星球以及一切生物都嵌入其中，表现出“似”是一个活的机体。
There was no metaphor. Was it a database? A prototyping tool, a scripted language?
一个样本研究工具还是一种计算机语言？
A superb teacher, with a fine grasp of the appropriate metaphor, and tailoring his teachings to the audience at hand.
一位庄严的老师，善于使用适当的隐喻，对即将到来的听众随机说法。
Once we needed an icon for a data filter which is often portrayed using the metaphor of a funnel.
曾经，我们需要一个数剧过滤器的图标。它一般被做成一个漏斗。
"She's just a fairy tale character others will read about. . . and metaphor for hope to me, " I replied with a wink.
“她只是一个人们可能会读到的某个童话故事里的人物…我把她比作希望。”我冲她眨眨眼作为回应。
She winked back, as if to prove that she wasn't just a metaphor.
她也冲我眨眨眼，仿佛要证明她不只是一个比喻。
It has been a metaphor for me in my adult years. Why wait to dance? Why let fear immobilize me? Why not act on intention, on desire?
在我成人以后，这一直都是我的一个隐喻。为什么跳舞前要等呢？为什么畏惧使我无法移动？为什么不依照意愿和愿望而行动？
Metaphor is not regarded as a rhetoric device at the early start. It takes a long time for metaphor to be changed into a rhetoric device.
隐喻并非起初就是一种为我们所熟知的语法修辞格，隐喻发展为语法修辞格也经历了漫长的历史过程。
The calf's battle and the herd's assist have become to me a metaphor for countless struggles taking place around the globe.
小牛的奋争和群牛的协助，让我联想到正在世界各地进行的数不清的战斗。
Secondly, Conceptual Metaphor Theory can be used to understand the vision metaphor in linguistic corpus of English and Chinese.
概念隐喻理论可用于理解英汉语料中的视觉隐喻。
"We struggled to see in New Moon a metaphor of teen conformity and longing but found only a muddle, " sniffs the Hollywood Reporter.
“我们试图在《新月》中看出对青年一致性和渴望的隐喻，但是我们发现这部电影一塌糊涂，”好莱坞的一位记者嗤之以鼻道。
