汉英修辞中的比喻 (3)
汉语中的明喻与英语中的Simile
你的精神,和你的胸脯一样,必须进一步提高。
婚姻像是一个堡垒:外边的想进去,里边的人想出来。
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
That floats on high
o’er vales and hills,
…
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.
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.
英语中用as……as 的明喻很多:
as black as
coal:
as brave as a
lion:
as dry as a
bone:
as heavy as
lead:
as light as a
feather
as quick as a
lighting
as pretty as a
picture:
as steady as a
rock:
as strong as a
bull(an ox)
as timid as a
mouse:
as thin as a
lath:
as weak as
water
as red as a
turkey-cock
as high as a
kite
as bitter as
gull:
as hungry as a
wolf:
as straight as an arrow:快直如箭


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