late 15c., from Middle French metaphore (Old French metafore, 13c.), and directly from Latin metaphora, from Greek metaphora "a transfer," especially of the sense of one word to a different word, literally "a carrying over," from metapherein "transfer, carry over; change, alter; to use a word in a strange sense," from meta- "over, across" (see meta-) + pherein "to carry, bear" (see infer).
雙語例句
1. Despite the mixed metaphor, there is some truth in this judgement.
盡管有混用的比喻，這個判斷還是有些道理的。
來自柯林斯例句
2. a game of football used as a metaphor for the competitive struggle of life
用來喻指生活中的激烈鬥爭的一場足球比賽
來自《權威詞典》
3. 'This vale of tears'is a metaphor for the human condition.
“ 眼淚的溪穀 ” 是塵世的比喻說法.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. Using metaphor, we say that computers have senses and a memory.
打個比方, 我們可以說計算機有感覺和記憶力.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.