英语中的修辞手法1
明喻 (Simile) 明喻是一种最简单、最常见的修辞方法,是以两种具有共同特征的事物或现象进行对比,表明本体和喻体的关系, 两者都在对比中出现, 其基本格式是 “A像 B”,常用的比喻词有as, like, as if, as though等
例如:●He jumped back as if he had been stung, and the blood rushedsintoshis wrinkled face
●The cheque fluttered to the floor like a bird with a broken wing
(支票跌落到地上,像一只断了翅膀的小鸟
) ●Like climbing a mountain, we struggle up three feet and fall back two
(正如爬山,我们费力爬上三英尺,又掉下去两英尺
)I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery blodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts
(丘吉尔在此使用了一个恰当的比喻,把德国士兵比作蝗虫,因为二者有着共同之处-传播毁灭
暗喻 (Metaphor) 暗喻也是一种比喻,但不用比喻词,因此被称作缩减了的明喻(a compressed simile)
它直接把一种事物名称用在另一事物上,从而更生动、更深刻地说明事理,增强语言的表现力
例如:●What will parents do without the electronic baby-sitter
( 如果没有这位电子保姆,父母该怎么办呢
)形象地说明了电视机的保姆功用
while most of us a