metaphor
[NOUN]
metaphors
1. [C, U 有变体名词] 隐喻
A metaphor is an imaginative way of describing something by referring to something else which is the same in a particular way. For example, if you want to say that someone is very shy and frightened of things, you might say that they are a mouse.
双语例句
例：the avoidance of violent expressions and metaphors like 'kill two birds with one stone'
避免使用有暴力意味的表达和隐喻，如“一石二鸟。”
例：the writer's use of metaphor.
该作家对隐喻的使用。
2. [C, U 有变体名词] 象征
If one thing is a metaphor for another, it is intended or regarded as a symbol of it.
双语例句
例：The divided family remains a powerful metaphor for a society that continued to tear itself apart.
破裂的家庭仍然是一个持续分裂的社会的有力象征。
NOUN. 名词
mix your metaphors
1. 把两个矛盾的隐喻混用在一起
If you mix your metaphors, you use two conflicting metaphors. People do this accidentally, or sometimes deliberately as a joke.
双语例句
例：To mix yet more metaphors, you were trying to run before you could walk, and I've clipped your wings.
再混用一些隐喻来说就是，你还不会走就想跑，而我又修短了你的翅膀。
PHRASE. 习语
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