Simile
['sɪmɪlɪ] or ['sɪməli]
解释:
(noun.) a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as').
胡安娜校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.
格里菲思校对
同义词及近义词：
n. Similitude, METAPHOR, comparison.
编辑:诺拉
解释:
n. something similar: similitude: (rhet.) a comparison to illustrate anything.—n.pl. Simil′ia things alike.—v.t. Sim′ilise to liken compare.—v.i. to use similitudes.—adv. Simil′liter in like manner.
伊恩校对
例句:
- I believe this simile largely speaks the truth. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The matron expressed her entire concurrence in this intelligible simile; and the beadle went on. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- They can be best described in a simile. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Weathercock can without the wind, suggested Jo, as he paused for a simile. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- What an old, old simile that is, between man and timber! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Holmes took up the scrap of paper, a fac-simile of which is here reproduced. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- The fac-simile herewith shows the color of the paper of the original document and all interlineations and erasures. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- There's no simile for his lungs. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- He repeated it to Stephens, and, as I heard afterwards, Stephens laughed immoderately at the simile of Mr. Lincoln. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- All similes and allegories concerning her began and ended with birds. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- He was but a poor man himself, said Peggotty, but as good as gold and as true as steel--those were her similes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- I had to ransack my memory for some more similes. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
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