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in a way that uses words andphraseswith a moreimaginativemeaningthanusual: （词或短语）比喻地Figurativelyspeaking, it was ablowrightbetween theeyes(= it was abadshock).打个比方说吧，这是正中眉心的一击。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesFigurative use of language - a metaphor forsomethingidiom
- allegorically
- allusion
- anthropomorphic
- anthropomorphize
- figurative
- figure of speech
- idiom
- ironic
- metaphor
- metonymy
- mix
- mixed metaphor
- non-literal
- non-metaphorical
- pathetic fallacy
- so to speakidiom
- speak
- symbol
- trope
See more results » Examplesoffigurativelyfiguratively It does this bothfiguratively(by rekindling interest in it) and literally, by organising concerts, releasing records, distributing those releases and other merchandise.From theCambridge English Corpus In this sense, the two ideas (nation and empire) were inextricably linked, literally andfiguratively.From theCambridge English Corpus Utilized predominantlyfiguratively, in the vocabulary of cultural studies, the term ' ' adoption' ' designates processes of incorporation at work in colonization.From theCambridge English Corpus The voice is thus, literally andfiguratively, disembodied.From theCambridge English Corpus The other homograph, however, is one of those slippery words with meanings that slide into each other and then becomefigurativelyextended.From theCambridge English Corpus Only occasionally does one singer move outside of the performance plane to take centre stage, either literally orfiguratively.From theCambridge English Corpus Yet these fantasies return forcefully in her fiction, often "haunted" both literally andfigurativelyby the maternal voice.From theCambridge English Corpus Figurativelyspeaking, an event corresponds to a word, for example, a noun, a verb, an adjective, and so on.From theCambridge English Corpus The house is literally andfigurativelya window to the presence of the qualities of a place and the consciousness of inhabiting the land.From theCambridge English Corpus Francis may have seen himself as the crusading warrior knight, but he was hostage (literally andfiguratively) to the march of political and dynastic interest.From theCambridge English Corpus Technology is already "under our skin" (bothfigurativelyand literally) and the future only promises more interface at the micro-, nano-, and cellular levels.From theCambridge English Corpus We argue that this development in the ability to interpret idiomsfigurativelyis due to normal development and regular language acquisition.From theCambridge English Corpus Our own embededness as scholars in the space and time we share with others, whether literally,figuratively, virtually, imaginatively, should cause us to be reflexive.From theCambridge English Corpus These explorers were pioneers, literally in his case, but alsofigurativelybecause they brought new dimensions to exploration.From theCambridge English Corpus The two male protagonists retreat into a darkened interior, darkened bothfigurativelyand metaphorically.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. |