metaphor
隐喻
definition
noun
“I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression,” said Mark, who was fond of theatrical metaphors
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
translation of 'metaphor'
noun
暗喻,
比喻,
隐喻,
比拟,
譬喻
example
her poetry depends on suggestion and 'metaphor'
the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a 'metaphor' for an industry that was teetering
Yet its importance as a 'metaphor' for evil means that the coalition remains desperate to exorcise these demons.
This could be seen as a 'metaphor' for writing fiction, but the story itself seems too schematic.
What is known is that the ball was a 'metaphor' for the movement of the sun, and by extension also of the moon and stars.
It's almost a 'metaphor' for immigrant life, which has to be retooled to succeed in America.
What kept me reading was how the novel worked as such a creepy 'metaphor' for contemporary America.
This would be a good 'metaphor' for something, no doubt, if I could only pin it down.
her poetry depends on suggestion and 'metaphor'
I like to think of the rats as a 'metaphor' for the city's egalitarianism.
From what I've read the film is more of a 'metaphor' for home coming/coming out.
Throughout the film, the necklace serves as a 'metaphor' for her freedom to live a life of her choosing.
The book's title is, of course, a 'metaphor' for what she as a writer does.
when we speak of gene maps and gene mapping, we use a cartographic 'metaphor'
The torso also includes the heart, a 'metaphor' for your vital life force, as well as representing the bonds of love.
He is a recurring 'metaphor' for the colour and movement of Australians at play.
Images are often presented through figures of speech like simile and 'metaphor' .
The 'metaphor' of consumption dominates this speech and connects each image.
In the story, this inability to finish a picture is a 'metaphor' for being reluctant to commit to a relationship.
Somehow niggling at my brain is this apartment as a 'metaphor' for the Korean Way of Doing Things.
I prefer to think that stiff-neckedness is a 'metaphor' for being stubbornly set in one's ways.
the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a 'metaphor' for an industry that was teetering
I had also meant for this story to be a 'metaphor' for my own life as I knew it and saw it.
Smoking is an epidemic; it is a 'metaphor' for cancer in its spread as much as it is for infecting people with cancer.
So if my garden is a 'metaphor' for my life now then I'm in big trouble!
The title is a 'metaphor' for the need to satisfy cravings that perhaps we do not always fully recognize.
Never use a 'metaphor' , simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
Her daily speech is sprinkled with 'metaphors' and witty turns of phrase.
In this way as if scenarios are not 'metaphors' but are performative approaches or enactments.
The frescos 'metaphorically' exalted, from outer tier to inner tier, the glories of an immense maritime empire.
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