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.
  1. 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。

英英释义

noun

• language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
  Synonym:tropefigureimage

双语例句

• Ask someone if you overuse a word, phrase, or figure of speech.
  问问别人你有没有过度使用一个词、句子、或是修辞。
• Think "broken heart" is just a figure of speech?
  觉得心碎只是一个比喻修辞说法？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The teacher used a vivid figure of speech in his talk.
  这位教师在他的谈话中用了一个形象的比喻。
• 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。