metaphor

音标发音

• 英式音标 ['metəfə; -fɔː'metəfə]
• 美式音标 [ˈmet̬.ə.fɔːr]
• 国际音标 ['metəfə]
• 英式发音
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基本解释

• n. 暗喻，隐喻；比喻说法

词根记忆

• meta(变化) + phor(带有)→隐约中带有意思的变化→隐喻
• meta(变化) + phor(带来)→以意义有变化的方式表达→隐喻
• meta(变化) + phor(带来)→给意义带来变化→隐喻，暗喻
• meta(变化) + phor(带有)→以变化的方式表达→隐喻

同根派生

• adj性质的同根词

  metaphorical：比喻性的，隐喻性的。

• adv性质的同根词

  metaphorically：隐喻地；用比喻。

• metaphor相关词

英汉例句

用作名词 (n.)

• Please define what is metaphor, and give me an example.
  请阐述什么是隐喻，然后举例。

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词组短语

短语

• Structural Metaphor 结构隐喻;结构性隐喻
• DEAD METAPHOR 亡隐喻;死隐喻;原义已消失的比喻;死比喻
• computer metaphor 计算机比喻;计算机隐喻
• extended metaphor 延伸隐喻;扩展的隐喻;拓展隐喻
• similarity metaphor 相似性隐喻

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英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• an expression, often found in literature, that describes a person or object by referring to something that is considered to have similar characteristics to that person or object

柯林斯英英字典

• 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.
• If one thing is a metaphor for another, it is intended or regarded as a symbol of it.
• If you mix your metaphors, you use two conflicting metaphors. People do this accidentally, or sometimes deliberately as a joke.

• metaphor剑桥字典
• metaphor柯林斯字典

专业释义

语言学

• 隐喻

  Metaphor is the creation of similarity.
  隐喻来源于相似性。

• 暗喻

文学

• 隐喻

  Chapters. The metaphor of "Feng Suo".
  第五章张爱玲小说的隐喻。

• 比喻

  Metaphor must have two compositions and two conditions.
  比喻的构成,需要有两个成分、两个条件。

• 隐语

  The "Game" has many meanings,on the basis of the combination of game's explaination,this thesis considers "game" is the sum of many forms which has cultural function incidentally,it covers sports,dance,music,carnival,party,metaphor and so on.
  “游戏”一词具有多种含义,本文在综合多种对游戏含义阐释的基础上,认为“游戏”是附带文化功能的诸多形式的总和,它涵盖了竞技、舞蹈、音乐、狂欢、聚会、隐语等多种形态。

  计算机科学技术

• 隐喻

艺术学

• 电影中的隐喻