在英语中,metaphor(隐喻、暗喻)是一种常见的修辞手法,它来源于希腊语metapherein一词,其意为“carrying from one place to another”。它在英语口语和文学作品中都广为运用,而且极其丰富多采。名词或名词短语,动词或动词短语、介词短语以及句子均可用作隐喻,它可以是句子的主语、谓语、表语、定语、同位语、宾语或状语,有只出现喻体的隐喻,也有本体和喻体同时出现的隐喻。 In English, metaphor (metaphor) is a common rhetorical technique derived from the Greek term metapherein, which means “carrying from one place to another.” It is widely used in spoken English and literary works, and extremely rich. Nouns or noun phrases, verbs or verb phrases, prepositional phrases, and sentences can all be used as metaphors. It can be the subject, predicate, ephemeral, attributive, object or adverbial of a sentence, with the metaphor of only appearance of the metaphor, and The Metaphor of Simultaneous Ontology and Metaphor.