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• 霎时间，东西长安街成了喧腾的大海。 （袁鹰：《十月长安街》）
• At once，the Eastern and Western Chang’an Roads became roaring oceans.
• 他是一本活词典(百科全书) 。
• He is a walking dictionary／encyclopedia.
• The boy wolfed down the food the moment he grabbed it.
• 那男孩儿一抓到食物便狼吞虎咽般地吃了 下去。
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• The boy is shooting up fast. • 这个小孩长得特快。 • Waves thundered against the rocks. • 水浪猛烈地拍打着岩岸。 • The corridor was flooded with boys and
• Habit is a cable; every day we weave a thread, and soon we cannot break it.
• 习惯是缆索，每天我们编上一条线，不久 我们便扯不断了。
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• Metaphor, perhaps the most important figure of speech, points out resemblance but with no acknowledging word. (Britannica Book of English Usage)
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• He is a bag of wind. • 他只说不干。
• He is an old woman. • 他是个婆婆妈妈的人。
• He is an all-purpose basket. • 他是一个多面手。
• We had been singing all night in the tavern. Next morning I had a frog in the throat.
• 我们在酒馆里唱了一整夜的歌，第二天早晨我 的嗓子就嘶哑了。
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• The case snowballed into one of the most famous trials in U. S. history.
• 这个案子像滚雪球似地，最终成了美国历 史上最著名的审判之一。
• 灾难老是折磨着他。
• The long faced hijacker barked his
orders. • 那个长脸的劫机者狂吠般地发号施令。
• Everything was bathed in the golden
sunlight. • 万物沐浴在金色的阳光下。
• He tailed her into the cave.
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• A silver plate (=The moon) is rising up in the sky.
• 一个银盘在天边升起。
• The human tide was rolling westward. ( Dickens )
• 人流向西涌去。
• The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. ( Shakespeare )
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隐喻的表达形式
• ( 1 ) 名词型 ( noun metaphors ) • Time is money. • Life is a journey. • All the world’s a stage, and all the men and
women merely players. ( William Shakespeare ) • 整个世界是座舞台，男男女女，演员而已。
girls. • 走廊里挤满了男女小孩。 • She melted \ dissolved into tears. • 她感动得流下眼泪。 • Don’t monkey with the new radio. • 不要乱动新收音机。
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• Misfortune dogged him at every turn．
• 他尾随着她走进洞穴。
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Exercise:
• I have been wrestling with this problem
for half ah hour. • 我钻研这个问题已经半小时了。
• The train steamed into the station.
• 火车吐着气开进了车站。
• 我们的生活是吉凶交织而成的网。
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• He 1ives in a palace of a house. • 他住在宫殿一般的房子里， • The boat disappeared in a mountain of a
wave. • 船在一般如山高的大浪中消失了。 • She was an angel of a wife. • 她是天仙般的妻子。 • I’ve got the devil of a toothache. • 我牙痛不堪。
• He needled his way through the crowd.
• 他穿过人群。
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• ( 3 )形容词型 ( adjective metaphors ) • It is a thorny problem／issue／subject. • 这是个棘手的问题(题目) 。 • The girl is a dead shot. • 这位姑娘是神枪手! • He loves a rosy cheek. • 他喜欢玫瑰色面颊。 • She has a photographic memory for detail. • 她对细节有照相机般的记忆力。
2. 隐 喻 METAPHOR
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• Habit may be likened to a cable; every day we weave a thread, and soon we cannot break it.
• 习惯像缆索，每天我们编上一条线，不久 我们便扯不断了。