• n. 暗喻，隐喻；比喻说法

meta-,改变，-phor,带来，词源同bring.引申词义改变方式，用于语法指暗喻，隐喻。

metaphor (n.)

late 15c., from Middle French metaphore (Old French metafore, 13c.), and directly from Latin metaphora, from Greek metaphora "a transfer," especially of the sense of one word to a different word, literally "a carrying over," from metapherein "transfer, carry over; change, alter; to use a word in a strange sense," from meta- "over, across" (see meta-) + pherein "to carry, bear" (see infer).

1. Despite the mixed metaphor, there is some truth in this judgement.

尽管有混用的比喻，这个判断还是有些道理的。

来自柯林斯例句

2. a game of football used as a metaphor for the competitive struggle of life

用来喻指生活中的激烈斗争的一场足球比赛

来自《权威词典》

3. 'This vale of tears'is a metaphor for the human condition.

“ 眼泪的溪谷 ” 是尘世的比喻说法.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. Using metaphor, we say that computers have senses and a memory.

打个比方, 我们可以说计算机有感觉和记忆力.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.

玫瑰在诗中通常作为爱的象征.

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》