借喻是英语中常见的一种修辞手法。所谓借喻,是指本体和比喻词都不出现,直接说出喻体的比喻。先看看牛顿的一句铭言:“If I have seen further than most men ,it is by standing on the shoul-ders of giants.”牛顿在这里不说前人的劳动成果,也没有说为科学而努力奋斗的许许 Metaphor is a common rhetoric in English. The so-called metaphor means that the body and figurative words do not appear, and the metaphor of the figurative body is directly spoken. Let’s take a look at Newton’s inscription: “If I have seen further than most men, it is by standing on the shoul-ders of giants.” Newton does not speak of the achievements of his predecessors, nor does he say that for science Fighting promises