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N-VAR
隱喻;暗喻;比喻的說(shuō)法
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.
例句
...the avoidance of 'violent expressions and metaphors' like 'kill two birds with one stone'.
避免使用“有暴力意味的表達(dá)和隱喻”，例如“一石二鳥(niǎo)”
...the writer's use of metaphor.
作者對(duì)隱喻的運(yùn)用
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N-VAR
象征;標(biāo)志
If one thing is a metaphor for another, it is intended or regarded as a symbol of it.
例句
The divided family remains a powerful metaphor for a society that continued to tear itself apart.
破碎的家庭仍舊是一個(gè)繼續(xù)分崩離析的社會(huì)的有力象征。
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PHRASE
混合(使用)隱喻(指同時(shí)運(yùn)用兩個(gè)矛盾的隱喻)
If you mix your metaphors, you use two conflicting metaphors. People do this accidentally, or sometimes deliberately as a joke.
例句
To mix yet more metaphors, you were trying to run before you could walk, and I've clipped your wings...
混用更多的隱喻來(lái)說(shuō)，你還沒(méi)學(xué)會(huì)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.
盡管有混用的比喻，這個(gè)判斷還是有些道理的。