英 [ˈmetəfə(r)] 美 [ˈmetəfər]
n. 隐喻，暗喻；象征，标志
复数metaphors
metaphor /ˈmɛtəfə/ CET6+ TEM4
有变体名词 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. 隐喻
...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达和隐喻，如“一石二鸟。”
有变体名词 If one thing is a metaphor for another, it is intended or regarded as a symbol of it. 象征
The divided family remains a powerful metaphor for a society that continued to tear itself apart.
破裂的家庭仍然是一个持续分裂的社会的有力象征。
习语 If you mix your metaphors, you use two conflicting metaphors. People do this accidentally, or sometimes deliberately as a joke. 把两个矛盾的隐喻混用在一起
To mix yet more metaphors, you were trying to run before you could walk, and I've clipped your wings.
再混用一些隐喻，你还不会走就想跑，而我又修短了你的翅膀。
a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
暗喻
比喻-引用次数：56
Metaphor must have two compositions and two conditions.
比喻的构成,需要有两个成分、两个条件。
参考来源《红楼梦》比喻研究
隐语-引用次数：6
The "Game" has many meanings,on the basis of the combination of game's explaination,this thesis considers "game" is the sum of many forms which has cultural function incidentally,it covers sports,dance,music,carnival,party,metaphor and so on.
“游戏”一词具有多种含义,本文在综合多种对游戏含义阐释的基础上,认为“游戏”是附带文化功能的诸多形式的总和,它涵盖了竞技、舞蹈、音乐、狂欢、聚会、隐语等多种形态。
参考来源论先秦两汉时代游戏的文学表现
隐喻
电影中的隐喻
比喻(Metaphor)：应用比喻，类比，轶事，故事和神话寓言来开启新思维，新感觉和新行为的可能性 3.
合并, 并入, 结合, 吞没, 融合 metaphor n. 隐喻, 暗喻, 比喻说话 metropolitan adj. 首都的, 主要都市的, n.
metaphorical 比喻性的，隐喻性的
metaphorically 隐喻地；用比喻
暗喻，隐喻；比喻说法
This metaphor is very appropriate.
这个比喻很贴切。
Confession is a bad metaphor for what those poets did.
忏悔录并不能很好地比喻那些诗人的所作所为。
This is a metaphor used to illustrate this observation.
这是一个用来说明这一观察的隐喻。
Writer-director Cameron also acknowledges that what the humans try to do on the fictional Pandora is a clear metaphor for what he believes are the dangers of exploitation on our own planet;
VOA : standard.2009.12.19
Yeats sees the Second Coming as an image, as a myth, an idea, a metaphor, a certain stylistic arrangement of experience.
叶芝把第二次降临看成一个意向，一个神话，一个意识，一个比喻，一种诗意的安排和感受。
现代诗歌课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
But a few verses later it's clear that the poet isn't really drowning: this is a metaphor for his difficult situation.
但是随后的几首诗证明了，诗人并没有真正的溺水：,这里的水象征着困境。
旧约导论课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
(Recording) Yoon says the North Korean leader is trying to "lower his son down safely from the back of a tiger, without getting eaten" a metaphor referring to Kim Jong Il's apparent plans for his youngest son to take over one day.
VOA : standard.2009.10.23
They don't intend to market the dress, but see it as a "metaphor for wastefulness, " says Ryan.
The metaphor is strangely apt, but the story that's got AMs hot under the collar is quite different.
Having established the metaphor of pre-1914 Europe ( see here) I will stick with it.