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
- 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。 - Hyperbole is a commonly-used figure of speech.
夸张辞格是一种常用的修辞手法。 - Think "broken heart" is just a figure of speech?
觉得心碎只是一个比喻修辞说法? - 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。 - We request that no flowers be sent. What's the figure of speech of the sentence?
敬辞花圈〔讣文中用语〕。这句话用了什么修辞格? - Analogy is a common rhetorical figure of speech, is an important way of stylistic rhetoric.
比喻,是修辞学上常见的修辞格之一,是一种重要的文体修辞手法。 - Using a figure of speech appropriate to her occupation.
使用比喻乃基于她的职业使然。 - 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。 - 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。 - I thought it was a figure of speech.
我把他的话当作一个比喻。