喜樂美語
  1. 1/ˈmetəfɔːr/ · /ˈmetəfə/隱喻（比喻的一種）

    A metaphor is a way of describing one thing by calling it something else, to show they are alike in some way — not literally true, but it helps the listener picture the idea. If you say 'time is money,' you don't mean time IS actually money; you mean it is valuable in the same way. Metaphors are everywhere in normal talk, not just in poems — 'he's drowning in work,' 'she has a heart of stone.' A close cousin is the , which does the same job but says it openly with 'like' or 'as' ('busy as a bee'). A metaphor skips those words and just says it directly.

    示範例句 · Example

    Calling the city's roads its arteries is a metaphor, not a fact.

    逐字把這座城市的道路稱作它的動脈是一個隱喻，不是一個事實。

    常見搭配

    • use a metaphor

      使用隱喻

      to describe something by calling it another thing

      He used a metaphor to explain how memory fades.

    • a use of metaphor

      隱喻的運用

      the way a writer handles this technique in general

      Critics praised her bold use of metaphor.

    • a metaphor for something

      用來比喻某事物的說法

      an image chosen to stand for a particular idea

      The beehive is a metaphor for human society.

    • extend a metaphor

      延伸隱喻

      to keep the same comparison going through several sentences

      The essay extends the metaphor of the garden over three pages.

    意思相近

    figure of speechimagecomparisontropeanalogy

    意思相反

    literal statement

core核心畫面

組成From Greek: 'meta' (across) + 'pherein' (to carry). The idea is that meaning gets 'carried across' from one thing to another.

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

  • metaphoricalthe adjective — 'used as a metaphor, not literally,' as in 'a metaphorical door'

複數 metaphors

意思相近

figure of speechimagecomparisontropeanalogy

意思相反

literal statement

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

metaphornoun/ˈmɛt.ə.fə/

  • 1

    The use of a word, phrase, concept, or set of concepts to refer to something other than its literal meaning, invoking an implicit similarity between the thing described and what is denoted by the word, etc., that is used.

    • The next group of computational approaches to metaphor assume that metaphor is basically a hidden analogy.
  • 2

    A word or phrase used in such implied comparison.

    • A Metaphor, in place of proper words, Resemblance puts; and dress to speech affords.
    • A Metaphor may be changed into a Simile, and also into plain language, containing neither metaphor nor simile. Thus: Metaphor. — Idleness is the rust of the soul. Simile. — As rust is to iron, so is idleness to the soul, taking away its strength and power of resistance. Plain. — Idleness takes away from the soul its strength and power of resistance.
  • 3

    computingengineeringgraphical-user-interfaceThe use of an everyday object or concept to represent an underlying facet of the computer and thus aid users in performing tasks.

    • desktop metaphor, wastebasket metaphor

metaphorverb/ˈmɛt.ə.fə/

  • 1

    To use a metaphor.

  • 2

    To describe by means of a metaphor.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。