📝 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

OK. We can get some more tomorrow. We should finish the floor now. Can you take the other end of this piece of wood? Now you have to pull it to make the surface smooth like that.
好吧。我们明天再多买些。现在我们应该把地板弄好。你能抓住木板的另一端吗？现在你要来回拉动木板，使它的表面象那块儿木板一样光滑。
Second, do not start faxing everything!
第二，不要把所有的东西都用来传真！
Congratulations on your good news! You must have done well to have achieved this success.
对你的好消息表示祝贺。你一定是干得很出色才获得这一成功的。
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🔤 更多 F 开头的单词

family Lycoperdaceae
featherhead
feed water
find relief from
flavacin
flueries
foremother
FORTRAN-like
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