figure of speech

英 [ˌfɪɡər əv ˈspiːtʃ]

美 [ˌfɪɡjər əv ˈspiːtʃ]

n.  修辞格; 修辞手段

牛津词典

noun

• 修辞格；修辞手段
  a word or phrase used in a different way from its usual meaning in order to create a particular mental picture or effect

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 比喻;修辞格
  Afigure of speechis an expression or word that is used with a metaphorical rather than a literal meaning.
  1. Of course I'm not. It was just a figure of speech.
     我当然不是，这不过是打个比方。

英英释义

noun

• language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
  Synonym:tropefigureimage

双语例句

• What's the figure of speech of the sentence?
  这句话用了什么修辞格？
• Chinese Figure of Speech is an important part of Chinese culture.
  汉语修辞是汉文化的重要组成部分之一。
• Journalistic English; headlines; grammatical characteristics; figure of speech; translation tactics;
  新闻英语；标题；语法特点；辞格；翻译策略；
• Analogy is a common rhetorical figure of speech, is an important way of stylistic rhetoric.
  比喻，是修辞学上常见的修辞格之一，是一种重要的文体修辞手法。
• Ask someone if you overuse a word, phrase, or figure of speech.
  问问别人你有没有过度使用一个词、句子、或是修辞。
• Today," High Mountain and Running Water "is a figure of speech about the bosom friends.
  今天，人们用“高山流水”来比喻知心朋友。
• As a figure of speech, irony has been widely used beth in literature works and a person's daily conversational speech.
  作为一种修辞手法，“反讽”已越来越多地应用于文学作品和人们的日常谈话中。
• In other words you come to understand what language is I figured it out but of course in rhetorical theory figure is precisely a figure of speech.
  换句话说，你开始明白了语言的本质，我想通了，但当然，在修辞学理论中，描绘，恰恰指一种比喻。
• The twentieth century Chinese rhetoric has made the great achievement of the research to figure of speech, but there are still many problems.
  二十世纪的汉语修辞学在修辞格研究方面是很有成绩的，但是也留下了不少问题。
• Think "broken heart" is just a figure of speech?
  觉得心碎只是一个比喻修辞说法？