figure of speech
英 [ˌfɪɡər əv ˈspiːtʃ]
美 [ˌfɪɡjər əv ˈspiːtʃ]
n. 修辞格; 修辞手段
牛津词典
noun
- 修辞格；修辞手段
a word or phrase used in a different way from its usual meaning in order to create a particular mental picture or effect
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 比喻;修辞格
Afigure of speechis an expression or word that is used with a metaphorical rather than a literal meaning.- Of course I'm not. It was just a figure of speech.
我当然不是，这不过是打个比方。
- Of course I'm not. It was just a figure of speech.
英英释义
noun
双语例句
- Bourgeois Socialism attains adequate expression, when, and only when, it becomes a mere figure of speech.
资产阶级的社会主义获得足够的表现，当且仅当它变成纯粹的演说辞令的时候。 - 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。 - As used in an academic paper about a literary phenomenon, the figure of speech denotes futility.
在学术文章的文学应用上，此惯用语比喻为「徒劳无功、浪费气力」。 - Jesus used this figure of speech, but they did not understand what he was telling them.
耶稣将这比喻告诉他们。但他们不明白所说的是什么意思。 - The twentieth century Chinese rhetoric has made the great achievement of the research to figure of speech, but there are still many problems.
二十世纪的汉语修辞学在修辞格研究方面是很有成绩的，但是也留下了不少问题。 - Parallelism is the most commonly used English speech in one of the figure of speech.
排比是演说中英语最常用的修辞格之一。 - Journalistic English; headlines; grammatical characteristics; figure of speech; translation tactics;
新闻英语；标题；语法特点；辞格；翻译策略； - I didn't really mean she was in outer space it's just a figure of speech.
我不是说她真在外层空间&这只是打个比方。 - This essay focuses mainly on the rhetoric function of words and sentences that possess the culture background from three aspects of figure of speech.
本文从譬喻三个方面展现具有文化背景意义的词及句子的修辞作用。 - Today," High Mountain and Running Water "is a figure of speech about the bosom friends.
今天，人们用“高山流水”来比喻知心朋友。