metaphor
单词辨析：
一种修辞手法，常用 as 或 like 等词将具有某种共同特征的两种不同事物相比拟。
'The baby is as cute as an angel' is a simile.
“孩子像天使一般可爱”是句明喻。
She looks like a doctor.
她看上去像个大夫。
He is as brave as a lion.
他像狮子一般勇猛。
一种修辞手法，描写某事物时，将其直接说成另一不同的事物而不用比喻词，暗示两者之间有着某种相似性。
She has a striking originality in her use of metaphor.
她在运用隐喻方面有着惊人的独创性。
Love is a red rose.
爱情是朵红玫瑰。
The old lady is a she-devil.
那个老太婆是个母夜叉。
相关例句：
The divided family remains a powerful metaphor for a society that continued to tear itself apart.
破碎的家庭仍旧是一个继续分崩离析的社会的有力象征。
Despite the mixed metaphor, there is some truth in this judgement.
尽管有混用的比喻，这个判断还是有些道理的。
Specifically, in ideational metaphor, Chinese learners tend to use verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
在概念隐喻方面，中国学生更倾向于使用动词、形容词和副词；
The overlapping or interaction of metaphor and metonymy sometimes exists in semantic extension.
隐喻和转喻在词义延伸中有时会交叉或相互作用。
This is a very common metaphor in business and finance.
这在商业和金融里面是非常普遍的比喻。
Cognitive linguistics sees metaphor from a new and higher perspective, thus providing satisfactory explanations for many language phenomena.
认知语言学从一个新的视角和高度来解释隐喻，为许多语言现象的理解提供了理据。