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
- 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。 - Hyperbole is a commonly-used figure of speech.
夸张辞格是一种常用的修辞手法。 - 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。 - 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。 - As a figure of speech, irony has been widely used beth in literature works and a person's daily conversational speech.
作为一种修辞手法，“反讽”已越来越多地应用于文学作品和人们的日常谈话中。 - 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。 - 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 thought it was a figure of speech.
我把他的话当作一个比喻。 - A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as inI could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.
一种比喻，使用夸张来强调或产生某种效果，比如在我能睡一年或这书有一吨重中。 - 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。