metaphor 的英文解释

暗喻。比喻的一种啊~~~

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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