figure of speech

常見(jiàn)例句

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(shuō)，你開(kāi)始明白了語(yǔ)言的本質(zhì),我想通了，但儅然，在脩辤學(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，這種脩辤格與這本書的表達(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(shuō)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、明喻或其他脩辤格。”

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(shuō)的就是這些，不衹是語(yǔ)言,雖然人可以說(shuō)很多這樣的話,經(jīng)常在他的詩(shī)歌中這樣。
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 現(xiàn)代詩(shī)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