比喻

This metaphor is very appropriate.

这个比喻很贴切.

The teacher drew an analogy between the human heart and a pump.

老师打了个比喻，把人的心脏比作水泵。

It turns out Levy is talking in metaphorical terms.

利维原来说的是一种比喻。

Europe, with Germany literally and figuratively at its centre, is still at the start of a remarkable transformation.

以德国作为地理以及比喻意义上的中心的欧洲仍处于巨大变革的初期。

Critics may complain that the novel's central conceit is rather simplistic.

批评家们可能会认为小说的核心比喻过于简单。

Jesus taught in parables.

耶酥以比喻讲道.

The writer used the image of corn silk to describe the girl's hair.

作者用玉米须来比喻那女孩的头发.

We often compare the flow of electrical charges to the flow of water.

我们时常把电荷的流动比喻为水的流动.

I see that I have lapsed into parable and ecstatic declamation.

我知道我在比喻和狂喜的辩论中造成了遗误.

He imprisoned her, in a figurative sense.

在比喻的意义上,他把她关在牢里了.

Thus, She's an angel and He's a lion in battle are metaphors.

因此她是天使,他是雄狮都是比喻说法.

Despite the mixed metaphor, there is some truth in this judgement.

尽管有混用的比喻，这个判断还是有些道理的。

'This vale of tears'is a metaphor for the human condition.

“ 眼泪的溪谷 ” 是尘世的比喻说法.

Life is poetically compared to the morning dew.

在诗歌中，人生被比喻为朝露。

That parable is quite apt. "

这比喻还算俏皮. ”