Simile
['sɪmɪlɪ] or ['sɪməli]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as').
胡安娜校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
格里菲思校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Similitude, METAPHOR, comparison.
編輯:诺拉
解釋/意思:
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.
伊恩校對
例句/造句/用法:
- I believe this simile largely speaks the truth. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The matron expressed her entire concurrence in this intelligible simile; and the beadle went on. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- They can be best described in a simile. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Weathercock can without the wind, suggested Jo, as he paused for a simile. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- What an old, old simile that is, between man and timber! 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Holmes took up the scrap of paper, a fac-simile of which is here reproduced. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- The fac-simile herewith shows the color of the paper of the original document and all interlineations and erasures. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- There's no simile for his lungs. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He repeated it to Stephens, and, as I heard afterwards, Stephens laughed immoderately at the simile of Mr. Lincoln. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- All similes and allegories concerning her began and ended with birds. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- He was but a poor man himself, said Peggotty, but as good as gold and as true as steel--those were her similes. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I had to ransack my memory for some more similes. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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