📝 例句

"A sweet temper" is a figurative expression, but "sweet coffee" is not.
“温和的性情”的sweet是比喻，但“甜咖啡”的sweet则不是。
Here the word is used in a figurative sense.
这里该字是在比喻的意义上使用的。
The word here is used in its figurative sense.
此词在这儿取的是它的比喻意义。
This figurative habit of his mind crippled his judgement.
他思想上的这种爱好比喻的习惯，削弱了他的判断能力。
a figurative use of a word
文字的比喻用法

🌱 联想助记

figure 图形，象征>→用图形来比喻

✅ 同义词

metaphoric metaphorical representational representative symbolic descriptive emblematic emblematical enigmatic allegoric allegorical

🔴 反义词

textual textuary actual

📖 牛津释义

figurative adj (abbr 缩写 fig) (of words) used in an imaginative or a metaphorical way rather than literally （指言语）比喻的 `He exploded with rage' shows a figurative use of the verb `to explode'. ｀他肺都气炸了,＇一句中的｀炸＇字是比喻用法.

🔁 扩展释义

*['figjurәtiv]a. 比喻的, 象征的, 修饰丰富的

📖 同为「公共英语」词汇

grope vi. 触摸，试探着前进;探索，摸索; vt. 摸索（路）;<俚>抚摸身体; n. 摸索，探索;
colt n. 小雄马;
aspire vi. 渴望，立志，追求;〈诗，古〉登，升，高耸;
mistrust vt.&vi. 不信任;怀疑; n. 不信任;
legacy n. 遗产;遗赠;
girdle n. （支持四肢的）带;腰带;环形物;妇女紧身褡; vt. 围绕，包围;
tutorial n. 个别辅导时间;教程，辅导材料;使用说明书;辅导课; adj. 导师的;私人教师的;辅导的;
overturn vt.& vi. （使）翻倒; vt. 使垮台，推翻;撤销（判决等）; n. 推翻，垮台;瓦解;灭亡，毁灭;
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🗣️ 情景例句

I'm worried that something has happened to her.
我担心她出了什么意外。
Heavy iron chains around his feet and hands were fixed to a metal bar that ran round the hall about ten centimetres off the ground.
手上和脚上沉重的铁链拴在厅堂四周离地约有10厘米的金属杆上。
If an unfair law existed, - and there were many that had been passed by the British rulers in India and South Africa - it was the duty of everyone to disobey this law, but without using violence.
如果存在一个不公平的法律--而且在印度与南非的英国统治者已经通过了许多这样的法律--那么不遵守这一法律是每个人的责任，但不要使用暴力。
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🔤 更多 F 开头的单词

fabricared language
fat spue
fever treatment
fioritura
flamencoing
flowering quince
forepleasure
formic
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