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
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the writer's striking use of metaphor
这位作家对于隐喻的独到运用
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...the avoidance of 'violent expressions and metaphors' like 'kill two birds with one stone'.
避免使用“有暴力意味的表达和隐喻”，例如“一石二鸟”
...the writer's use of metaphor.
作者对隐喻的运用
The divided family remains a powerful metaphor for a society that continued to tear itself apart.
破碎的家庭仍旧是一个继续分崩离析的社会的有力象征。
To mix yet more metaphors, you were trying to run before you could walk, and I've clipped your wings...
混用更多的隐喻来说，你还没学会走就想跑，而我又剪掉了你的翅膀。
Despite the mixed metaphor, there is some truth in this judgement.
尽管有混用的比喻，这个判断还是有些道理的。
Plato � � s metaphor of the cave is crucially important to the understanding of The Unicorn.
解读《独角兽》的关键是柏拉图的洞喻.
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'This vale of tears'is a metaphor for the human condition.
“ 眼泪的溪谷 ” 是尘世的比喻说法.
《简明英汉词典》
In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.
玫瑰在诗中通常作为爱的象征.
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But through metaphor, he crammed layers of meaning together to produce flashes of revelation.
但是透过隐喻, 他利用图层的重叠创作出稍纵即逝的意念.
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Metaphor has been the key task in the cognitive linguistic research.
摘要隐喻贯穿于人类一切自然语言和思维之中,是认知语义学研究的重点之一.
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I apologize for the sexual metaphor.
首先,请原谅我用性来做比喻.
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The metaphor hitbody and informs the identical and different factor of body same important.
隐喻中本体与喻体相同与不同的因素同样重要.
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Wong and tragic metaphor that is happily married couples harmony.
鸾凤和鸣即是比喻婚姻美满,夫妻和谐.
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We should be very wary of the traditional engineering metaphor for building software.
在构建软件时,应该对传统工程所隐含的东西非常警惕.
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Metaphor is one important field of cognitive linguistics studies.
摘要隐喻是认知语言学重要的研究方向之一.
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Times are changed and we must, to use the homely metaphor, cut our coat according to our cloth.
时代变了,因此, 用朴实的隐喻来讲, 我们必须“适应环境”.
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The functions such as and cohesion realized by nominalizing metaphor in a discourse are studied.
作为语法隐喻的重要手段,名词化隐喻在各类语篇中大量出现.
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I may emulate his choice of metaphor.
我可以借用他的说法.
辞典例句
Serving as a link between cognition and language, metaphor plays an indispensable role in vocabulary acquisition.
隐喻作为认知和语言的纽带, 在词汇学习中扮演着不可或缺的角色.
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He thinks the home office concept is a metaphor for the home office worker.
他认为家庭办公室这一概念同时也把那些回家还工作的人形容出来了.
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He recollected Cronshaw's whimsical metaphor of the Persian carpet.
他回忆克朗肖经常谈起的那个波斯地毯的寓言.
辞典例句
The paper discusses metaphor theory of cognitive linguistics asas its guidance for English words teaching.
讨论认知语言学中隐喻理论对英语词汇教学的指导作用.
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Using metaphor, we say that computers have senses and a memory.
打个比方, 我们可以说计算机有感觉和记忆力.
《简明英汉词典》
English major : you explicate simile and metaphor in the parachute instructions.
英文系学生︰阐述降落伞说明书里的明喻和隐喻.
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Tropes include metaphor, simile, metonymy, synecdoche, etc.
比喻包括隐喻 、 喻 、 喻、喻等, 是语义修辞法的重要组成部分.
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In my view we going through two dark ages, which is probably a horrible metaphor.
在我看来,我们正在经历两个黑暗的时代, 这可能是一种可怕的比喻.
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