metaphor
🇬🇧/ˈmetəfə(r)/ 🇺🇸/ˈmetəfər/📚 3957 2考研托福雅思If you mix your metaphors, you use two conflicting metaphors. People do this accidentally, or sometimes deliberately as a joke. 把两个矛盾的隐喻混用在一起
noun [专属名词]隐喻，暗喻；象征，标志
This metaphor is very appropriate.
这个比喻很贴切。
meta(变化) + phor(带有) → 以变化的方式表达 → 隐喻
单词造句:
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- ...the avoidance of violent expressions and metaphors like "kill two birds with one stone." …避免使用有暴力意味的表达和隐喻，如“一石二鸟。”
- The divided family remains a powerful metaphor for a society that continued to tear itself apart. 破裂的家庭仍然是一个持续分裂的社会的有力象征。
- To mix yet more metaphors, you were trying to run before you could walk, and I've clipped your wings. 再混用一些隐喻，你还不会走就想跑，而我又修短了你的翅膀。
- Confession is a bad metaphor for what those poets did. 忏悔录并不能很好地比喻那些诗人的所作所为。
- This is a metaphor used to illustrate this observation. 这是一个用来说明这一观察的隐喻。