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(the use of) anexpressioncomparingone thing with another, alwaysincludingthe words "as" or "like": 明喻（的运用）Thelines"Shewalksinbeauty, like thenight..." from Byron'spoemcontaina simile.拜伦的诗句“她在美中徜徉，如同…的夜晚”中含有一个明喻。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesComparing and contrasting - analogy
- antithesis
- apple
- as againstidiom
- balance
- balancesomethingagainstsomething
- comparative
- competitive
- competitively
- contradistinction
- contrast
- contrastive
- gold standard
- measure
- nonrelative
- perspective
- relative
- relatively
- relativist
- stack up
See more results » simile| American DictionaryEnglishanexpressionincludingthe words "like" or "as" tocompareone thing with another: [U]She was good atcapturingapassingfigurewith anaptsimile orcomparison. Examplesofsimilesimile Yet the same chapter also employs some very good similes, such as grammar as a sieve.From theCambridge English Corpus A third factor is the degree of iconicity between the images and their referents in the analogical trope, be it metaphor orsimile.From theCambridge English Corpus Likewise, 77% (2164) of ironicsimiletypes are disambiguated automatically.From theCambridge English Corpus The next three chapters are concerned with various forms of figurative language including metaphors and similes, idioms, and proverbs.From theCambridge English Corpus Yet lyric epiphany is itself an implicitsimileor analogy.From theCambridge English Corpus Where evident, the metaphysical dexterity of their similes rubs off on the purveyor.From theCambridge English Corpus One of these factors is the relation betweensimileand metaphor.From theCambridge English Corpus In the above two sentences, the tactile perception was assessed with a metaphor, or more precisely, with asimile.From theCambridge English Corpus Empedocles presents a litany of the illusions that plague society, including thesimileof the injured child.From theCambridge English Corpus The field of architectural design is populated with a fair number of language metaphors, similes, analogies, and the like.From theCambridge English Corpus The syntax of "as" is the figure of speech known assimile.From theCambridge English Corpus Most people either know or once knew what asimileis, the signpost 'as' or 'like' being a dead giveaway.From theCambridge English Corpus Some terms covered: abbreviation, burlesque, determiner, chapbook, documentary, epic, hexameter, kabuki, lacuna, paragram, proscenium,simile, tragic flaw, whodunit, zeugma.From theCambridge English Corpus The similes continue to follow thick and fast, in this one-paragraph condensation of what is claimed was an hour-long speech in council.From theCambridge English Corpus To use asimile, history is like a collection of billions of equations (causal chains) that are all dependent upon each other.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |