simile
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：
This point has to be emphasized because many people, even some great scholars, have misunderstood and misinterpreted this simile as referring to Nirvana.
这一点要强调的，因为很多人，甚至一些伟大的学者，误解和曲解为是指涅盘这个比喻。
If might be an image, a comparison, the finding of likeness between unlike things which is at the heart of metaphor and simile making.
也可能是一个意象，一个对比，在不同之物中寻找到的相同点，而这也是隐喻和明喻的内涵。
The Effect of the Differences between Chinese Culture and English Culture on the translation of Simile and Metaphor and the Solutions
汉英文化差异对比喻翻译的影响及解决方略
Back to thinking about the battlefield, there is a simile I can give you.
回想战争，我能给予你们一个明喻的说法。
In another funny message, one kid writes their mum a poem with a rather telling simile: 'Roses are red, just like your face when dad eats our snack'.
在另一张有趣的纸条中，一个孩子给自己的妈妈写了首诗，其中有一个相当生动的比喻：玫瑰是红色的，就像爸爸吃我们的零食时您的脸。
Another point of resemblance in the simile "Women are clothes for you and you are clothing unto them," which comes to mind is that one of the characteristics of clothing is that it conceals.
“女人是你的衣服，你是她们的衣服。”这个比喻的类同之处在于，衣服的特性之一就是蔽体遮羞。