simile
英 [ˈsɪməli]
美 [ˈsɪməli]
n. 明喻; 明喻的运用
复数：similes
BNC.21125 / COCA.19562
同义词辨析
similen. 明喻
〔辨析〕
一种修辞手法，常用 as 或 like 等词将具有某种共同特征的两种不同事物相比拟。
〔例证〕
'The baby is as cute as an angel' is a simile.
“孩子像天使一般可爱”是句明喻。
She looks like a doctor.
她看上去像个大夫。
He is as brave as a lion.
他像狮子一般勇猛。
“孩子像天使一般可爱”是句明喻。
She looks like a doctor.
她看上去像个大夫。
He is as brave as a lion.
他像狮子一般勇猛。
metaphorn. 暗喻，隐喻
〔辨析〕
一种修辞手法，描写某事物时，将其直接说成另一不同的事物而不用比喻词，暗示两者之间有着某种相似性。
〔例证〕
She has a striking originality in her use of metaphor.
她在运用隐喻方面有着惊人的独创性。
Love is a red rose.
爱情是朵红玫瑰。
The old lady is a she-devil.
那个老太婆是个母夜叉。
她在运用隐喻方面有着惊人的独创性。
Love is a red rose.
爱情是朵红玫瑰。
The old lady is a she-devil.
那个老太婆是个母夜叉。
牛津词典
noun
- 明喻；明喻的运用
a word or phrase that compares sth to sth else, using the words like or as , for example a face like a mask or as white as snow ; the use of such words and phrases
柯林斯词典
- 明喻
Asimileis an expression which describes a person or thing as being similar to someone or something else. For example, the sentences 'She runs like a deer' and 'He's as white as a sheet' contain similes.
英英释义
noun
- a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')
双语例句
- Her style is rich in simile.
她的文体中用很多明喻。 - Compared with a simile, a metaphor is less literal and more figurative.
同明喻相比，暗喻不那么书面化而且更加形象化。 - Thorpe never finished the simile, for it could hardly have been a proper one.
莫兰没有说完他的比喻，因为这实在不是个很文雅的比喻。 - "As white as snow" is a simile.
洁白如雪是明喻。 - Back to thinking about the battlefield, there is a simile I can give you.
回想战争，我能给予你们一个明喻的说法。 - To recur to a simile, at least partially apt, imagine the nervous system to represent a drainage-system, inclining, one the whole, toward certain muscles, but with the escape thither somewhat clogged.
借助于一个明喻（至少是切题的），将神经系统想象为一个排水系统，整体上向某些肌肉倾斜，但是，随着通向那里的出口有些堵塞。 - Then, one of the monks requested the Lord Buddha to explain the simile, which the Buddha did it in this way.
接着就有一位比丘请求佛陀解释这个比喻。佛陀就详细加以解释。 - By demonstrating the lexical functions in the figurative speech with animal names, the article presents the rhetoric function of animal names in simile and metaphor.
本文从动物比喻的词汇功能出发，通过实例对动物名称在明喻和暗喻中的修辞功能作一浅显分析，指明它与英语文化和思维方式密不可分。 - This is the simile of what I have just given to you.
不过这是我已经给予你们的明喻。 - This point has to be emphasized because many people, even some great scholars, have misunderstood and misinterpreted this simile as referring to Nirvana.
这一点要强调的，因为很多人，甚至一些伟大的学者，误解和曲解为是指涅盘这个比喻。