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metaphor

英 ['metəfə; -fɔː]美 ['mɛtəfɚ]

n. 暗喻，隱喻；比喻說法

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中文詞源

metaphor 暗喻，隱喻

meta-,改變，-phor,帶來，詞源同bring.引申詞義改變方式，用於語法指暗喻，隱喻。

英語詞源

metaphor (n.)

late 15c., from Middle French metaphore

(Old French metafore, 13c.), and directly from Latin metaphora, from Greek metaphora "a transfer," especially of the sense of one word to a different word, literally "a carrying over," from metapherein "transfer, carry over; change, alter; to use a word in a strange sense," from meta- "over, across" (see meta-) + pherein "to carry, bear" (see infer).

權威例句

1. Despite the mixed metaphor, there is some truth in this judgement.

儘管有混用的比喻，這個判斷還是有些道理的。

2. a game of football used as a metaphor for the competitive struggle of life

用來喻指生活中的激烈鬥爭的一場足球比賽

3. 'This vale of tears'is a metaphor for the human condition.

“ 眼淚的溪谷 ” 是塵世的比喻說法.

4. Using metaphor, we say that computers have senses and a memory.

打個比方, 我們可以說計算機有感覺和記憶力.

5. In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.

玫瑰在詩中通常作爲愛的象徵.

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