figure of speech

音標(biāo)發(fā)音

In other words you come to understand what language is I figured it out but of course in rhetorical theory figure is precisely a figure of speech.
換句話說，你開始明白了語言的本質(zhì),我想通了，但當(dāng)然，在修辭學(xué)理論中,描繪，恰恰指一種比喻。
Levi was a working chemist, but the title is a metaphor and even this figure of speech is sometimes a little strained to comply with the book's scheme.
萊維的本職是一名化學(xué)家，但是這個(gè)書名用的是暗喻手法。有的時(shí)候，這種修辭格與這本書的表達(dá)意圖有些牽強(qiáng)附會(huì)。
Lister said people should follow the 1946 advice of writer George Orwell: "Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
李斯特說人們最好遵循作家喬治·奧威爾1946年提出的建議：“不要使用那些在各種出版物上頻繁出現(xiàn)的暗喻、明喻或其他修辭格?！?/li>
原聲例句
That's all but it's no mere figure of speech though one can make figures enough about it in his poetry very often].
他說的就是這些，不只是語言,雖然人可以說很多這樣的話,經(jīng)常在他的詩歌中這樣。
耶魯公開課 - 現(xiàn)代詩歌課程節(jié)選

Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
FORBES: Better Copy Thanks to George Orwell
He was a master of rhetoric, as he was a master of mimicry, but his preferred figure of speech was one of the lowest, the pun.
NEWYORKER: Silence, Exile, Punning
But maybe my saying so is a figure of speech.
NEWYORKER: Lake Water

an expression that uses words to mean something different from their ordinary meaning

A figure of speech is an expression or word that is used with a metaphorical rather than a literal meaning.

修辭格
Euphemism is a very important culture-loaded figure of speech that is often employed in communication.
委婉語是在交際中常用的文化負(fù)載厚重的一種修辭格。
文學(xué)
修辭手段
Metaphor has been regarded as a figure of speech for a long time by traditional metaphor theories, while conceptual metaphor theory holds that it is a cognitive phenomenon, a significant way of thinking.
傳統(tǒng)隱喻理論一直把隱喻僅僅看作是一種普通的修辭手段。隨著認(rèn)知語言學(xué)的興起,人們對(duì)隱喻的理解開始上升到認(rèn)知高度。
比喻