metaphor
- IPA[ˈmedəˌfôr]
美式
- a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable；a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract
noun: metaphor, plural noun: metaphors
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable her poetry depends on suggestion and metaphor “I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression,” said Mark, who was fond of theatrical metaphors
- ▪ a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else, especially something abstract the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a metaphor for an industry that was teetering
