Metaphor

(noun.) 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.

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• His betrothed looked shocked at the metaphor, and George Dorset exclaimed with a sardonic growl: Poor devil! 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• My point is that the metaphor is taken for the reality: I have used at least six metaphors to state it. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• When divested of metaphor, a straight line or a square has no more to do with right and justice than a crooked line with vice. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• To leave metaphor. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He smiled at the whirl of metaphor with which he was trying to build up a defence against the influences of the last hour. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Connected ideas are readily taken for each other; and this is in general the source of the metaphor, as we shall have occasion to observe afterwards. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Hence the old metaphor of worthlessness of bricks without straw, but of course in burning, and in modern processes of pressing unburnt bricks, straw is no longer used. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Every line, every word wasin the hackneyed metaphor which their dear writer, were she here, would forbida dagger to my heart. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Coleridge said, I attend Davy’s lectures to increase my stock of metaphors, and there were many others who went to hear the young chemist for other reasons than a liking for science. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• My point is that the metaphor is taken for the reality: I have used at least six metaphors to state it. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• If he used metaphors, it was to illustrate, and not to embellish the truth. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

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