名词

1. 隐喻;暗喻;比喻的说法
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.

2. 象征;标志
If one thing is a metaphor for another, it is intended or regarded as a symbol of it.

3. 混合(使用)隐喻(指同时运用两个矛盾的隐喻)
If you mix your metaphors, you use two conflicting metaphors. People do this accidentally, or sometimes deliberately as a joke.

1. a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity