英 [ˈfɪɡərətɪv] 美 [ˈfɪɡjərətɪv]
adj. 比喻的;形象的;有文采的,用修辞手段的
figurative /ˈfɪɡərətɪv/ TEM8
形容词 If you use a word or expression in a figurative sense, you use it with a more abstract or imaginative meaning than its ordinary literal one. 比喻的
...an event that will change your route – in both the literal and figurative sense.
…一件将改变你路线的大事–既在原义上也在喻义上。
副词 比喻地
I saw that she was, both literally and figuratively, up against a wall.
我都看到她,既是事实上也是比喻地,面临一道墙。
形容词 Figurative art is a style of art in which people and things are shown in a realistic way. 形象 (艺术)
His career spanned some 50 years and encompassed both abstract and figurative painting.
他的艺术生涯跨越了大约五十个年头,抽象和形象油画两者都有所造诣。
(used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech
figurative language
同义词: nonliteral
consisting of or forming human or animal figures
the figurative art of the humanistic tradition
同义词: figural
比喻的;修饰丰富的;形容多的
造型的
象徵
... emblematic 作为象征的 figurative 比喻的 representational (尤指艺术或绘画风格)具...
... abstract 抽象派 figurative 造型的 brush 画笔 ...
比喻的;修饰丰富的;形容多的
His career spanned some 50 years and encompassed both abstract and figurative painting.
他的艺术生涯跨越了大约五十个年头,抽象和形象油画两者都有所造诣。
The themes can be figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, and the techniques can be divided into figurative painting and freehand painting.
题材可分人物、山水、花鸟等,技法可分具象和写意。
I'm not being figurative or clever here.
我在这里并不是纸上谈兵或者自作聪明。
I speak in a figurative way about the relationship between the earth and the sky, and I believe that there's a sky god.
我用一种修辞法,来说天地关系,我相信有一个天神。
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It's that she's rotting; there is mushrooms growing on her, figurative mushrooms growing on her head.
她就像在腐烂;,就像有蘑菇长在她的脸上,她的脸除了些许白斑都是紫色。
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Milton lends a special horror, I think, to this image of a blind Fury, and I hope you will agree with those critics -- I didn't make this up - who find embedded in these lines something like a figurative intimation of castration.
弥尔顿给这个暴怒形象添加了特殊的恐怖色彩,我希望你们同意--这不是我编造的,-有评论家发现这几句字里行间,在暗喻阉割。
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But there are still plenty of breweries around the world playing their figurative hearts out.
The exhibition includes pioneering figurative work by 23 Indian artists, dating through the 1980s.
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The question at hand is: Will the Housewife keep the literal and figurative house?
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