metaphor 的英文解释各位帮忙啊,很急.请回答的朋友写详细一点,还有例如在别人著作中对该词的定义也一起列出,谢谢是英文解释，英文！不是汉字

metaphor 的英文解释各位帮忙啊,很急.请回答的朋友写详细一点,还有例如在别人著作中对该词的定义也一起列出,谢谢是英文解释，英文！不是汉字
metaphor 的英文解释
各位帮忙啊,很急.请回答的朋友写详细一点,还有例如在别人著作中对该词的定义也一起列出,谢谢
是英文解释，英文！不是汉字

metaphor 的英文解释各位帮忙啊,很急.请回答的朋友写详细一点,还有例如在别人著作中对该词的定义也一起列出,谢谢是英文解释，英文！不是汉字
牛津高阶英汉双解词典：
metaphor
/ ˈmetəfə(r); ˋmɛtəfɚ/ n [C, U] (example of the) use of a word or phrase to indicate sth different from (though related in some way to) the literal meaning, as in `I'll make him eat his words' or `She has a heart of stone' 隐喻（如I'll make him eat his words或She has a heart of stone）: striking originality in her use of metaphor 她在运用隐喻方面的独创性. Cf 参看 simile.
> metaphorical / ˏmetəˈfɔrɪkl; US -ˈfɔːr-; ˏmɛtəˋfɔrɪkl/ adj of or like a metaphor; containing metaphors 隐喻的: a metaphorical expression, phrase, etc 隐喻的说法、 短语等. Cf 参看 figurative, literal 1a.
metaphorically / -klɪ; -klɪ/ adv. Cf 参看 mixed metaphor (mixed).
朗文当代英语词典：
metaphor
met·a·phor /ˈmetəfə, -fɔː US -fɔːr/ n [U and C]
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: French; Origin: métaphore, from Latin, from Greek metaphora, from meta- ( META-) + pherein 'to carry']
a way of describing something by referring to it as something different and suggesting that it has similar qualities to that thing
→simile
She uses some wonderful images and metaphors in her writing.
a very creative use of metaphor
mixed metaphor
the use of two different metaphors at the same time to describe something, especially in a way that seems silly or funny
something that represents a general idea or quality
metaphor for
Their relationship is a metaphor for the failure of communication in the modern world.
韦氏大词典：
met·a·phor n.
Pronunciation: 'me-tə-ˌfȯr also -fər
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English methaphor, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French metaphore, from Latin metaphora, from Greek, from metapherein to transfer, from meta- + pherein to bear ― more at BEAR
Date: 15th century
1 : a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) broadly : figurative language ― compare SIMILE
2 : an object, activity, or idea treated as a metaphor : SYMBOL 2
–met·a·phor·ic \ˌme-tə-'fȯr-ik, -'fär-\ or met·a·phor·i·cal \-i-kəl\ adjective
–met·a·phor·i·cal·ly \-i-k(ə-)lē\ adverb
柯林斯高阶英语词典：
metaphor
1.metaphor metaphors
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.
N-VAR
2.metaphor metaphors
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 that continued to tear itself apart.
N-VAR: oft N for n
3.metaphor
If you mix your metaphors, you use two conflicting metaphors. People do this accidentally, or sometimes deliberately as a joke.
To mix yet more metaphors, you were trying to run before you could walk, and I've clipped your wings.
Despite the mixed metaphor, there is some truth in this judgement.
PHR: V inflects

metaphor
名词。
[修辞]隐喻, 暗喻, 比喻说话
英文解释：
1，a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
2，...

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metaphor
名词。
[修辞]隐喻, 暗喻, 比喻说话
英文解释：
1，a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
2，Metaphor (from the Greek: μεταφορά - metaphora, "a transfer", in rhetoric "transference of a word to a new sense", from μεταφέρω - metaphero, "to carry over, to transfer") is language that directly compares seemingly unrelated subjects. ...
3，The use of a word or phrase to refer to something that it isn't, implying a similarity between the word or phrase used and the thing described, and without the words "like" or "as"; The word or phrase used in this way. An implied comparison
例句：
In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.
玫瑰在诗中通常作为爱的象征。
Thus, She's an angel and He's a lion in battle are metaphors.
因此她是天使, 他是雄狮都是比喻说法。

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暗喻。比喻的一种啊~~~

metaphor
n.暗喻，隐喻