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汉英修辞中的比喻 （3）

汉语中的明喻与英语中的Simile

 Your mind needs an uplift as well as your bust.

                                             ——Morley

你的精神，和你的胸脯一样，必须进一步提高。

   Marriage is like a beleaguered fortress: those who are without want to get in, and those within want to get out.

                                           ——P.M Quitard

婚姻像是一个堡垒：外边的想进去，里边的人想出来。

   Love goes towards love, as schoolboys from their books;

   But love from love, towards school with heavy looks.

                                   ——William Shakespeare

赴情人的约会，像学童抛开书本一样：

和情人分别，像学童板着脸上学堂。

I wondered lonely as a cloud           独行徐徐如浮云，

That floats on high o’er vales and hills,   横绝太空渡山谷。

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                           ——W. Wordsworth

I thought, hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually, the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.

                                         ——Lu Xun

我想，希望是本无所谓有，无所谓无的，这正如地上的路；其实地上本没有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。

Men are like parking spaces. The good ones are taken and you can bet the avilable ones are all handicapped.

   男人像停车地一样，好的都给人家占去了，剩下来的肯定是留给伤残人士用。

英语中用as……as 的明喻很多：

as black as coal:  黑的跟炭一样

as brave as a lion:  勇猛如狮

as dry as a bone:  十分干燥

as heavy as lead:  沉重如铅

as light as a feather  轻如鸿毛

as quick as a lighting  快如闪电

as pretty as a picture:  美丽如画

as steady as a rock:  坚如磬石

as strong as a bull(an ox)  壮如牛

as timid as a mouse:  胆小如鼠

as thin as a lath:  骨瘦如柴

as weak as water  弱不禁风（柔弱如水）

as red as a turkey-cock  :脸红的如下蛋的鸡

as high as a kite  :烂醉如泥（如痴如狂）

as bitter as gull:  苦如胆汁

as hungry as a wolf:  饥如饿狼

as straight as an arrow:快直如箭