英语常用修辞格的翻译分析

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英语修辞学中20种常见修辞格名称双语释义及举例

What does that lawyer do after he dies?——Lie still. 那个律师死后干什么？──躺着仍说鬼话。（注：lie躺，撒谎；still安静地，仍然）
E. oxymoron; zeugma ; contrast
Oxymoron（矛盾修辞法）与汉语中的反映辞格类似，都是将相互矛盾的概念和判断巧妙地联系在一起，以便相互映衬，突出事物的特点，表达复杂的思想感情和意味深长的哲理。矛盾修辞手法在英语中常见，但在汉语中很少见。如：sweet sorrow 忧喜参半（不是甜蜜的悲伤）； proud humility 不卑不亢（不是骄傲的谦卑）
这个项目从一开始就是一个摆脱不了的经济难题。（Albatross是英国诗人柯勒律治的《古舟子咏》中的信天翁，它被忘恩负义的水手杀死后，全船陷入灾难中。）
B. metonymy; transferred epithet Metonymy、synecdoche和_1antonomasia都是不直接说出事物的本来名称，而换用另一个名称或另一个说法。它们大体上相当于汉语的借代（分为旁借和对代两类）。如Crown（王冠）可喻指君主、王权、王国政府等；doll（玩具）可喻指姑娘、宝贝等。再如：
as thick as thieves亲密无间（不是"像贼一样厚"）
as old as the hills古老（不是"像山一样老"）
The ship plows the sea. 船在乘风破浪地前进。（不是"船在犁海"）
Allusion与汉语的暗引相近似。其特点是不注明来源和出处，一般多引用人们熟知的关键词或词组，将其融合编织在作者的话语中。引用的东西包括典故、谚语、成语、格言和俗语等。英语引用最多的是源出《圣经》故事以及希腊、罗马神话、《伊索寓言》和那些渊源流长的谚语、格言等。例如：

英语中所有修辞手法的解释和例句

英语中所有19种修辞手法的全部解释和例句1.Simile 明喻明喻是将具有共性的不同事物作对比.这种共性存在于人们的心里,而不是事物的自然属性.标志词常用 like, as, seem, as if, as though, similar to, such as等.例如:1>.He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.2>.I wandered lonely as a cloud.3>.Einstein only had a blanket on, as if he had just walked out of a fairy tale.2.Metaphor 隐喻,暗喻隐喻是简缩了的明喻,是将某一事物的名称用于另一事物,通过比较形成.例如:1>.Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.2>.Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.3.Metonymy 借喻,转喻借喻不直接说出所要说的事物,而使用另一个与之相关的事物名称.I.以容器代替内容,例如:1>.The kettle boils. 水开了.2>.The room sat silent. 全屋人安静地坐着.II.以资料.工具代替事物的名称,例如:Lend me your ears, please. 请听我说.III.以作者代替作品,例如:a complete Shakespeare 莎士比亚全集VI.以具体事物代替抽象概念,例如:I had the muscle, and they made money out of it. 我有力气,他们就用我的力气赚钱.4.Synecdoche 提喻提喻用部分代替全体,或用全体代替部分,或特殊代替一般.例如:1>.There are about 100 hands working in his factory.(部分代整体)他的厂里约有100名工人.2>.He is the Newton of this century.(特殊代一般)他是本世纪的牛顿.3>.The fox goes very well with your cap.（整体代部分）这狐皮围脖与你的帽子很相配.6.Personification 拟人拟人是把生命赋予无生命的事物.例如:1>.The night gently lays her hand at our fevered heads.（把夜拟人化）2>.I was very happy and could hear the birds singing in the woods.（把鸟拟人化）7.Hyperbole 夸张夸张是以言过其实的说法表达强调的目的.它可以加强语势,增加表达效果..例如:1>.I beg a thousand pardons.2>.Love you. You are the whole world to me, and the moon and the stars.3>.When she heard the bad news, a river of tears poured out.9.Euphemism 委婉,婉辞法婉辞法指用委婉,文雅的方法表达粗恶,避讳的话.例如:1>.He is out visiting the necessary. 他出去方便一下.2>.His relation with his wife has not been fortunate. 他与妻子关系不融洽.3>.Deng Xiaoping passed away in 1997. （去世）11.Irony 反语反语指用相反意义的词来表达意思的作文方式.如在指责过失.错误时,用赞同过失的说法,而在表扬时,则近乎责难的说法.例如:1>.It would be a fine thing indeed not knowing what time it was in the morning.早上没有时间观念还真是一件好事啊（真实含义是应该明确早上的时间观念）2>"Of course, you only carry large notes, no small change on you. "the waiter said to the beggar.12.Pun 双关双关就是用一个词在句子中的双重含义,借题发挥.作出多种解释,旁敲侧击,从而达到意想不到的幽默.滑稽效果.它主要以相似的词形.词意和谐音的方式出现.例如:1>.She is too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little for a great praise.2>.An ambassador is an honest man who lies abroad for the good of his country.3>.If we don't hang together, we shall hang separately.13.Parody 仿拟这是一种模仿名言.警句.谚语,改动其中部分词语,从而使其产生新意的修辞.例如:1>.Rome was not built in a day, nor in a year.2>.A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.3>.If you give a girl an inch nowadays she will make address of it.15.Antithesis 对照,对比,对偶这种修辞指将意义完全相反的语句排在一起对比的一种修辞方法.例如:1>.Not that I loved Caeser less but that I loved Romemore.2>.You are staying; I am going.3>.Give me liberty, or give me death.17.Oxymoron 反意法,逆喻这也是一种矛盾修辞法,用两种不相调和的特征形容一个事物,以不协调的搭配使读者领悟句中微妙的含义.例如:1>.No light, but rather darkness visible.没有光亮，黑暗却清晰可见2>.The state of this house is cheerless welcome.Transferred Epithet: (移就） It is a figure of speech where an epithet (an adjective ordescriptive phrase) is transferred from the noun it should rightly modify(修饰) to another to which itdoes not really apply or belong. For instance, I spent sleepless nights on my project.1. Rushing thongs, blinded by the darkness and smoke, rushed up on a street and down the next trampling the fallen in a crazy fruitless dash toward safety.(Robert Silverbury: Pompeii)在黑暗和浓烟中狂奔的人群，沿着大街小巷踏着倒下的躯体，慌乱而徒劳地向安全地方冲闯。

英语中所有修辞手法的解释和例句

英语中的修辞手法及英英释义

英语中的修辞手法及英英释义英语中的修辞手法有很多种，以下是其中几种常见的修辞手法及其英英释义：1.Metaphor（隐喻）：a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used torepresent something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity or parallelism between the two.2.Simile（明喻）：a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used torepresent something by comparing it to another thing, using words such as "like" or "as" to make the comparison.3.Synecdoche（提喻）：a figure of speech in which a part is used to representthe whole or vice versa, such as using the term "head" to refer to a person's entire body.4.Personification（拟人）：a figure of speech in which non-human objects orconcepts are given human characteristics or abilities, such as using words like "the night sings" to describe the darkness.5.Hyperbole（夸张）：a figure of speech in which an object or event isexaggerated or exaggerated for effect, such as using words like "I wasstarving for days" to describe a short period of hunger.6.Irony（反讽）：a figure of speech in which the intended meaning of astatement is the opposite of its literal meaning, such as using words like"nice weather we're having" when it's raining.7.Oxymoron（矛盾修饰法）：a figure of speech in which two opposite orcontradictory words or phrases are used together to create a paradoxicaleffect, such as using words like "bittersweet" to describe a mixed feeling of happiness and sadness.这些修辞手法都可以增强语言的表达力，帮助传达更深刻的意义。

英语修辞手法分析大全+英语文章分析赏析

英语修辞手法分析大全+英语文章分析赏析英语修辞手法分析大全一、明喻（simile）是以两种具有相同特征的事物和现象进行对比，表明本体和喻体之间的相似关系，两者都在对比中出现。

常用比喻词like, as, as if, as though等，例如：1、This elephant is like a snake as anybody can see.这头象和任何人见到的一样像一条蛇。

2、He looked as if he had just stepped out of my book of fairytales and hadpassed me like a spirit.他看上去好像刚从我的童话故事书中走出来，像幽灵一样从我身旁走过去。

3、It has long leaves that sway in the wind like slim fingers reaching to touchsomething.它那长长的叶子在风中摆动，好像伸出纤细的手指去触摸什么东西似的。

二、隐喻（metaphor）这种比喻不通过比喻词进行，而是直接将用事物当作乙事物来描写，甲乙两事物之间的联系和相似之处是暗含的。

1、German guns and German planes rained down bombs, shells and bullets...德国人的枪炮和飞机将炸弹、炮弹和子弹像暴雨一样倾泻下来。

2、The diamond department was the heart and center of the store.钻石部是商店的心脏和核心。

三、提喻（synecdoche）又称举隅法，主要特点是局部代表全体，或以全体喻指部分，或以抽象代具体，或以具体代抽象。

例如：1、The Great Wall was made not only of stones and earth, but of the flesh andblood of millions of men.长城不仅是用石头和土建造的，而且是用几百万人的血和肉建成的。

英语中所有26种修辞手法的全部解释和例句

英语修辞手法总结Figures of speech (修辞)are ways of making our language figurative. When we use words in other than their ordinary or literal sense to lend force to an idea, to heighten effect, orto create suggestive imagery, we are said to be speaking or writing figuratively. Now we are going to talk about some common forms of figures of speech.1) Simile：(明喻）It is a figure of speech which makes a comparison between two unlike elements having at least one quality or characteristic (特性)in common. To make the comparison, words like as, as...as, as if and like are used to transfer the quality we associate with one to the other. For example, As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.2) Metaphor：(暗喻）It is like a simile, also makes a comparison between two unlike elements, but unlike a simile, this comparison is implied rather than stated. For example, the worldis a stage.3) Analogy: (类比）It is also a form of comparison, but unlike simile or metaphor which usually uses comparison on one point of resemblance, analogy draws a parallel between two unlike things that have several common qualities or points of resemblance.4) Personification: (拟人）It gives human form of feelings to animals, or life and personal attributes(赋予) to inanimate(无生命的) objects, or to ideas and abstractions(抽象). For example, the wind whistled through the trees.5) Hyperbole: (夸张） It is the deliberate use of overstatement or exaggeration to achieve emphasis. For instance, he almost died laughing.6) Understatement: (含蓄陈述） It is the opposite of hyperbole, or overstatement. Itachieves its effect of emphasizing a fact by deliberately(故意地) understating it,impressing the listener or the reader more by what is merely implied or left unsaid than by bare statement. For instance, It is no laughing matter.7) Euphemism: (委婉） It is the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive(无冒犯) expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant. For instance, we refer to "die" as " pass away".8) Metonymy (转喻）It is a figure of speech that has to do with the substitution of the mane of one thing for that of another. For instance, the pen (words) is mightier than the sword (forces).9) Synecdoche (提喻） It is involves the substitution of the part for the whole, or thewhole for the part. For instance, they say there's bread and work for all. She was dressedin silks.10) Antonomasia (换喻）It has also to do with substitution. It is not often mentioned now, though it is still in frequent use. For example, Solomon for a wise man. Daniel for a wise and fair judge. Judas for a traitor.11) Pun: (双关语） It is a play on words, or rather a play on the form and meaning of words. For instance, a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms. (Here "arms" has two meanings: a person's body; weapons carried by a soldier.)12) Syllepsis: (一语双叙） It has two connotations.In the first case, it is a figure by which a word, or a particular form or inflection of a word, refers to two or more words in the same sentence, while properly applying to or agreeing with only on of them in grammar or syntax(句法). For example, He addressed you and me, and desired us to follow him. (Here us is used to refer to you and me.)In the second case, it a word may refer to two or more words in the same sentence. For example, while he was fighting , and losing limb and mind, and dying, others stayed behind to pursue education and career. (Here to losing one's limbs in literal; to lose one's mindis figurative, and means to go mad.)13) Zeugma: (轭式搭配） It is a single word which is made to modify or to govern two or more words in the same sentence, wither properly applying in sense to only one of them, orapplying to them in different senses. For example, The sun shall not burn you by day, nor the moon by night. (Here noon is not strong enough to burn)14) Irony: (反语） It is a figure of speech that achieves emphasis by saying the opposite of what is meant, the intended meaning of the words being the opposite of their usual sense. For instance, we are lucky, what you said makes me feel real good.15) Innuendo: (暗讽） It is a mild form of irony, hinting in a rather roundabout (曲折)way at something disparaging(不一致) or uncomplimentary(不赞美) to the person or subject mentioned. For example, the weatherman said it would be worm. He must take his readings in a bathroom.16) Sarcasm: (讽刺） It Sarcasm is a strong form of irony. It attacks in a taunting and bitter manner, and its aim is to disparage, ridicule and wound the feelings of the subject attacked. For example, laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps break through.17) Paradox: (似非而是的隽语） It is a figure of speech consisting of a statement or proposition which on the face of it seems self-contradictory, absurd or contrary to established fact or practice, but which on further thinking and study may prove to be true, well-founded, and even to contain a succinct point. For example more haste, less speed.18) Oxymoron: (矛盾修饰） It is a compressed paradox, formed by the conjoining(结合) of two contrasting, contradictory or incongruous(不协调) terms as in bitter-sweet memories, orderly chaos(混乱) and proud humility(侮辱).19) Antithesis: (对照） It is the deliberate arrangement of contrasting words or ideas in balanced structural forms to achieve emphasis. For example, speech is silver; silence is golden.20) Epigram: (警句） It states a simple truth pithily(有利地) and pungently(强烈地). It is usually terse and arouses interest and surprise by its deep insight into certain aspects of human behavior or feeling. For instance, Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.21) Climax: (渐进） It is derived from the Greek word for "ladder" and implies the progression of thought at a uniform or almost uniform rate of significance or intensity,like the steps of a ladder ascending evenly. For example, I came, I saw, I conquered.22) Anti-climax or bathos: (突降）It is the opposite of Climax. It involves stating one's thoughts in a descending order of significance or intensity, from strong to weak, from weighty to light or frivolous. For instance, But thousands die, without or this or that, die, and endow(赋予) a college, or a cat.23) Apostrophe： (顿呼） In this figure of speech, a thing, place, idea or person (dead or absent) is addressed as if present, listening and understanding what is being said. For instance, England! awake! awake! awake!24) Transferred Epithet: (转类形容词） It is a figure of speech where an epithet (anadjective or descriptive phrase) is transferred from the noun it should rightly modify(修饰) to another to which it does not really apply or belong. For instance, I spent sleeplessnights on my project.25) Alliteration: (头韵） It has to do with the sound rather than the sense of words for effect. It is a device that repeats the same sound at frequent intervals(间隔) and since the sound repeated is usually the initial consonant sound, it is also called "front rhyme". For instance, the fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, the furrow followed free.26) Onomatopoeia: (拟声） It is a device that uses words which imitate the sounds made by an object (animate or inanimate), or which are associated with or suggestive(提示的) of some action or movementExplanation version1一、什么是修辞格修辞格(figures of speech)是提高语言表达效果的语言艺术。

英语修辞手法总结

英语修辞手法总结
1. 嘿，simile（明喻）呀，就像“她的笑容像阳光一样灿烂”，这不是一下子就让你感受到她笑容的温暖了嘛！
2. 哇哦，metaphor（隐喻），比如“时间是小偷”，多形象地表达了时间悄悄偷走东西的感觉呀！
3. 嘿呀，personification（拟人），像“风在怒号”，把风当成会发怒的人，是不是很有趣呢？
4. hyperbole（夸张）可太有意思啦，“我能吃下一头牛”，这得是多大的食量呀，哈哈！
5. understatement（低调陈述），“这不算太坏”，其实可能已经挺糟糕了，但这么说就感觉还好啦。

6. irony（反讽），“你可真聪明啊”，但其实是说反话，在讽刺呢，这种感觉很奇妙吧！
7. euphemism（委婉语），“他去见上帝了”，多委婉地说一个人去世了呀。

8. metonymy（转喻），“白宫决定了”，其实是说美国政府呢，很巧妙吧！
9. synecdoche（提喻），“帆来了”其实说的是船来了，这种指代很特别呢！
10. alliteration（头韵），“Sally sells seashells by the seashore”，读起来朗朗上口，很有意思吧！
我觉得英语修辞手法真的是让语言变得丰富多彩，充满魅力呀！它们能让我们更生动、更形象地表达自己的想法和感受呢！。

英语中所有19种修辞手法的全部解释和例句

英语中所有19种修辞手法的全部解释和例句1.Simile 明喻明喻是将具有共性的不同事物作比照.这种共性存有于人们的心里,而不是事物的自然属性.标志词常用 like, as, seem, as if, as though, similar to, such as等.例如：1>.He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.2>.I wandered lonely as a cloud.3>.Einstein only had a blanket on, as if he had just walked out of a fairy tale.2.Metaphor 隐喻,暗喻隐喻是简缩了的明喻,是将某一事物的名称用于另一事物,通过比较形成.例如：1>.Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.2>.Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.3.Metonymy 借喻,转喻借喻不直接说出所要说的事物,而使用另一个与之相关的事物名称.I.以容器代替内容,例如：1>.The kettle boils. 水开了.2>.The room sat silent. 全屋人安静地坐着.II.以资料.工具代替事物的名称,例如：Lend me your ears, please. 请听我说.III.以作者代替作品,例如：a complete Shakespeare 莎士比亚全集VI.以具体事物代替抽象概念,例如：I had the muscle, and they made money out of it. 我有力气,他们就用我的力气赚钱.4.Synecdoche 提喻提喻用局部代替全体,或用全体代替局部,或特殊代替一般.例如：1>.There are about 100 hands working in his factory.(局部代整体)他的厂里约有100名工人.2>.He is the Newton of this century.(特殊代一般)他是本世纪的牛顿.3>.The fox goes very well with your cap.（整体代局部）这狐皮围脖与你的帽子很相配.5.Synaesthesia 通感,联觉,移觉这种修辞法是以视.听.触.嗅.味等感觉直接描写事物.通感就是把不同感官的感觉沟通起来，借联想引起感觉转移，“以感觉写感觉”。

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❖ 英语比喻美感的再现应以比喻内容为基础，发掘比喻美的真正所在，同时致力于形式的表现，尽可能用“形神兼备”的翻译来传神达意。在实在不可能“形似”时，要在“神似”的条件下，竭力用其它方法和手段表现出原比喻的意之真谛、美之内涵。依据这一原则，可采用以下方法：
1. 保留差异，等值再现
❖ Passion was to go to sleep in the presence of Mrs. General and blood was to change to milk and water. (Dickens. Little Dorrit) 在杰纳勒尔夫人跟前，一个人的激情会变得麻木不仁，热血也会变成掺了水的牛奶。
拟人（Personification）
The (inanimate) things are treated as animate or human.
Attribution of personality to an impersonal thing. ❖ 拟人就是把动物和没有生命的事物当成有思想感
情的人类来描写，甚至让它们具有人的行为。这些事物可以是无生命的实体，还可以是抽象的概念， ❖ 如：a smiling moon（微笑的月亮），a crying city（哭泣的城市），to strangle justice（扼杀正义）。 ❖ 英汉两种语言中都有这种修辞手法，在翻译的时
常用的修辞
❖ 修辞格(figures of speech or rhetoric)是提高语言表达效果的语言艺术。它能使语言生动形象、具体活泼，给人以美的享受。
❖ 比喻、矛盾、双关、借代、拟人、夸张、委婉、重复、反语、排比、对照等。
❖ 原文作者在文章中使用修辞手法，是为了使语言更加形象生动，鲜明突出；或者使语言更加整齐匀称，音调铿锵，以便更深入地阐明事件的意义或刻画人物的性格。因此，译文中若不能正确表现原文的修辞格，就不能准确地表达作者的思想和文风，就不符合“忠实、通顺”的翻译标准。
（2）Mr. Smith may serve as a good secretary, for he is as close as an oyster(牡蛎). 史密斯先生可以当个好秘书，因为他守口如瓶。
❖ as cunning as a dead pig
❖ as happy as a cow
❖ 像狐狸一样狡猾 ❖ 快乐得像只百灵鸟
1. What is learned in the cradle ❖ 少时所学，到老不忘。 is carried to the grave.
2. I can’t earn enough to keep ❖ 我赚的不够吃。 my body and soul together.
3.
When my ship comes take a trip to Africa.
❖ The commonest connectives are “like” and “as (…as)”. Other words used in similes are “more than”, “as if”, “resemble”, “suggest”, etc.
明喻 Simile
❖ 英语中的simile和汉语明喻基本格式相同，一般情况下，可以照直翻译。
as busy as bee
像蜜蜂一样忙碌
as brave as lion
像狮子一样勇猛
as black as crow
像乌鸦一般黑
as sharp as knife 像刀一样锋利
Metaphor 隐喻
❖ One thing is described in terms of another. Implied comparison achieved through a figurative use of words; the word is used not in its literal sense, but in one analogous to it.
busy
❖ As ___________ as a bat. ❖ As ____________ as a bee. ❖ As ____________ as a bell. ❖ As ____________ as a daisy (a kind of flower). ❖ As ____________ as an eel (a kind of fish). ❖ As ____________ as a feather. ❖ As ____________ as a fox. ❖ As ____________ as the hills. ❖ As ____________ as a mouse. ❖ As ____________ as a mule.
My love is a red red rose. When Leah saw the blanket of snow from her bedroom window, she knew school would be cancelled for the day.
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage.
in,
I
will ❖
当我发了财时，我要到非洲去。
4. Every life has its roses and thorns.
❖ 每个人的生活都有甜有苦。
直译+意译法
1. Most of us are too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellows the warm sunshine of praise. 我们中的很多人太容易给别人批评的冷风，而不愿意给自己的同伴赞扬的阳光。
❖ It’s very plain that the old man I will remain at daggers drawn to the end of our lives, and that I have nothing to expect from him.
很明显，我同老头子至死也势不两立/ 剑拔弩张，我不会从他身上得到什么东西的。
2. 那男孩一动不动地呆着。
3. 我们为那伟大的一文不值的信念而死。
4. --What does that lawyer 4. -- 那个律师死后能干什么？
do after he dies?
（1）--静静地躺着。
--Lie still.（2）-- Nhomakorabea着说鬼话。
quiet, light, fresh ,blind, clear, stubborn, cunning, old ,slippery,
❖ 绝大多数英语修辞格都能找到与之相对应的汉语修辞格，它们在结构上和修辞作用上都彼此十分相似。根据这一特点，在翻译中应当尽可能采用直译的方法 .
• 但这种译法仅限于在用词和修辞结构上与原文一致情况下使用，但是在有些场合却不能墨守原文的修辞手法，也不能照搬原文的比喻形象。理由是英汉两个民族的历
2. 替换比喻，去异求同
❖ 比喻形象在中英民族中概念不同； ❖ 比喻的事物是各民族特有的成语典故； ❖ 当差异不利于理解，而汉语里恰有相对应
的固定比喻，可用中国特有比喻来替换； ❖ 从审美角度看，客体形式的改变，正是为
了产生相同的审美效果。
Examples:
（1）He said: “ If one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly as a stone falls to the ground.” (Henry David Thoreau) 他（指索罗）说：“如果一个人要说什么，就应像竹筒倒豆子那样直截了当地说出来。”
Shakespeare, Macbeth
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.
W. Churchill
一．明喻和隐喻的翻译方法
1. The fury of the crowd erupted like a volcano. 群众的愤怒像火山一般爆发起来。
2. I can’t save myself any more than a clay idol can save itself while swimming across a river.
❖ Simile (明喻) 和Metaphor (隐喻) 是英语中最常用的修辞手法，它的作用是把要说明的事物比喻成另一种具有鲜明的同一特点的事物，从而更形象、更深刻地说明事理，增强语言的表现力。作为修辞手段的比喻，本身是极富诗意的一种语言形式，只有使读者领会了其中的韵味，才可以进一步领悟全文的精神，达到等效翻译的目的，因此比喻美感的对等翻译不容忽视。
❖ Examples: （1）Every family is said to have at least one skeleton in the cupboard. 俗话说，衣柜里面藏骷髅，(见不得人的事家家有。)
（2）Advice and correction roll off him like water off a duck’s back. 劝导对他好象水过鸭背似的(不起作用)。
2. Men are April when they woo, December when they wed, maids are May when they maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. (Shakespeare) 男人求爱时如和煦的4月，婚后却像寒冬腊月；闺中少女则宛若温暖的5月，而为人妇后却像易变的天气阴晴莫测。