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N-VAR
隱喻;暗喻;比喻的說法
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“有暴力意味的表達和隱喻”，例如“一石二鳥”
...the writer's use of metaphor.
作者對隱喻的運用
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N-VAR
象征;標志
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繼續(xù)分崩離析的社會的有力象征。
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PHRASE
混合(使用)隱喻(指同時運用兩個矛盾的隱喻)
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...
混用更多的隱喻來說，你還沒學會走就想跑，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，這個判斷還是有些道理的。