figure of speech

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˌfɪɡ.ər əv ˈspiːtʃ]
• 美式音标 [ˌfɪɡ.jʊr əv ˈspiːtʃ]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• 修辞；比喻说法

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• In other words you come to understand what language is I figured it out but of course in rhetorical theory figure is precisely a figure of speech.
  换句话说，你开始明白了语言的本质,我想通了，但当然，在修辞学理论中,描绘，恰恰指一种比喻。
• Levi was a working chemist, but the title is a metaphor and even this figure of speech is sometimes a little strained to comply with the book's scheme.
  莱维的本职是一名化学家，但是这个书名用的是暗喻手法。 有的时候，这种修辞格与这本书的表达意图有些牵强附会。
• Lister said people should follow the 1946 advice of writer George Orwell: "Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
  李斯特说人们最好遵循作家乔治·奥威尔1946年提出的建议：“不要使用那些在各种出版物上频繁出现的暗喻、明喻或其他修辞格。”

原声例句

• That's all but it's no mere figure of speech though one can make figures enough about it in his poetry very often].
  他说的就是这些，不只是语言,虽然人可以说很多这样的话,经常在他的诗歌中这样。
  耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

权威例句

• Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
  FORBES: Better Copy Thanks to George Orwell
• He was a master of rhetoric, as he was a master of mimicry, but his preferred figure of speech was one of the lowest, the pun.
  NEWYORKER: Silence, Exile, Punning
• But maybe my saying so is a figure of speech.
  NEWYORKER: Lake Water

词组短语

短语

• the figure of speech 比喻上的不同
• figure of speech rhetoric 修饰文辞
• English Figure of Speech 英语修辞法
• analogous figure of speech 比喻辞格
• implicit figure of speech 比兴柔厚

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• an expression that uses words to mean something different from their ordinary meaning

柯林斯英英字典

• A figure of speech is an expression or word that is used with a metaphorical rather than a literal meaning.

专业释义

语言学

• 修辞格

  Euphemism is a very important culture-loaded figure of speech that is often employed in communication.
  委婉语是在交际中常用的文化负载厚重的一种修辞格。

  文学

• 修辞手段

  Metaphor has been regarded as a figure of speech for a long time by traditional metaphor theories, while conceptual metaphor theory holds that it is a cognitive phenomenon, a significant way of thinking.
  传统隐喻理论一直把隐喻仅仅看作是一种普通的修辞手段。 随着认知语言学的兴起,人们对隐喻的理解开始上升到认知高度。

• 比喻