英语修辞格汇总(高级英语-第一册).docx

1. 明喻 simile Simile refers to a direct comparison between two or more things, normally introduced by like or as. He has been as drunk as a fiddler ’ s bitch. 他醉得像小提琴手的母狗。 他曾喝得酊名大醉 / 烂醉如泥。 If We haven ’ t got any money, we can ’ t buy Ita television’asplain. as the nose on your face. 1. 如果我们没有钱，就不能买电视机。这就像脸上的鼻子 一样清楚明了。 没有钱我们就不能买电视机。这就像秃子头上的虱子——明摆着的事。 Mr. Smith may serve as a good secretary, for he is as close as an oyster. 史密斯先生可以当个好秘书，因为他嘴巴紧得像牦蛎 . 史密斯先生可以当个好秘书，因为他守口如瓶。 I see also the dull, drilled, docile, brutish masses of the Hun soldiery plodding on like a swarm of crawling locusts. 2. 隐喻 metaphor Metaphor is an implied comparison between two or more things achieved by identifying one with the other. That lady tries to make sheep ’ s eyes at her new boss. 那位女士想向新老板投去绵羊之眼。 那位女士想向新老板献媚。 Little donkeys with harmoniously tinkling bells thread their way among the throngs of people entering and leaving the bazaar. It grows louder and more distinct, until you round a corner and see a fairyland of dancing flashes, as the burnished copper catches the light of innumerable lamps and braziers. The dye-market, the pottery-market, and the carpenters  ’  market lie elsewhere in the maze of vaulted streets which honeycomb this bazaar. It is a vast ,somber cavern of a room ,some thirty feet high and sixty feet square , and so thick with the dust of centuries that the mudbrick roof are only dimly visible. Churchill, he reverted to this theme, and I asked whether for him, the arch anti-communist, this was not bowing down in the House of Rimmon. I see the Russian soldiers standing on the threshold of their native land ,guarding the fields which their fathers have tilled from time immemorial. I see the German bombers and fighters in the sky ,street smarting from many a British whipping But all this fades away before the spectacle which is now unfolding. to find what they believe is an easier and a safer prey. 3. 借代 metonymy There is a mixture of the tiger and the ape in the ch