时间: 2025-04-24 17:52:04
美: ['mɛtəfɚ]
英: ['metəfə; -fɔː]
n. 暗喻,隐喻;比喻说法
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词源分析:Metaphor 源自希腊语“metaphora”,意为“转移”或“转变”,其中“meta-”意味着“超越”,而“phora”源于“pherein”,意为“携带”或“带来”。
历史背景:该词首次记录在公元前5世纪的古希腊文学中,尤其是在亚里士多德的作品中,他探讨了修辞中的比喻用法。
课本:在**的中学英语教材中,metaphor 通常出现在高级阶段,如高二、高三的阅读理解与写作部分。在牛津和美国的教材中,metaphor 可能出现在中学阶段的英语文学课程中,特别是在分析文学作品时。
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通过以上的学*与分析,可以更好地理解和运用“metaphor”这一词汇。
[N-VAR] 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. 隐喻
例:...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,如“一石二鸟。”
[N-VAR] If one thing is a metaphor for another, it is intended or regarded as a symbol of it. 象征
例:The divided family remains a powerful metaphor for a society that continued to tear itself apart.破裂的家庭仍然是一个持续分裂的社会的有力象征。
[PHRASE] If you mix your metaphors, you use two conflicting metaphors. People do this accidentally, or sometimes deliberately as a joke. 把两个矛盾的隐喻混用在一起
例:To mix yet more metaphors, you were trying to run before you could walk, and I've clipped your wings.再混用一些隐喻,你还不会走就想跑,而我又修短了你的翅膀。