英语专业辅修资料-Simile 1

Simile

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. dissimilar objects •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.

•Similes compare two dissimilar objects, concepts (in most respects these two things are totally unlike, but actually are alike in some significant way) in order to suggest an unexpected likeness between the two.

What is a simile: A simile is a comparison of two different things that uses “like”or “as”

Four characteristics

• A simile is based on association and usually has four characteristics:

• 1 ) introduced by such comparative/ connecting/collective words as " like " , " as " , " as if " , " as though" , "be likened" ," similar to" , " be something of" , etc. and sometimes "than" ;

•2) involving two things, one of which being the primary term or tenor, the other secondary term or vehicle;

• 3 ) the two things involved should be completely different (across domains);

•4) the two things should be similar in at least one characteristic.

•The criterion of effectiveness of similes varies from person to person.

The quality that similes must possess:

Freshness

Originality

Structure:

英语的主体有三种说法：

(本体)：subject、Primary term or tenor

(喻体)：vehicle

•Secondary term

•reference

喻词Instrument\ comparative word \indicator of resemblance\ Acknowledging word connecting/collective words\ Simile marker

•Instruments:

•Like, as, as...as, as if , as though, what

•like

•Wit without learning is like a tree without fruit.

•有天资而无学识，好比树木不结果实。

•Education is like the life-giving spring breeze and rain.

•教育犹如春风化雨。

•sell like hot cakes畅销

•like a fish out of water很不自在, 格格不入

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•like a donkey between two bundles of hay优柔寡断, 打不定主意

•like a drowned rat象落汤鸡

•like a rat in a hole瓮中之鳖一般

•like a hen on a hot girdle极不舒服

•like a cat on hot bricks

•like a hot knife through butter[口]非常容易地

•like a lamb驯顺地, 怯弱地, 天真地

•Like rats leave a sinking ship树倒猢狲散

•汗流浃背

•Sweat like a pig

•like flies大量[批]

•like hot cakes争先恐后地

•like a fish out of water

•如鱼离水, 不适应

•Like a duck to water

•如鱼得水

•She has taken to teaching like a duck to water.

•她教起书来驾轻就熟。

•As

•Love goes towards love, as schoolboys from their books; but love from love, towards school with heavy looks. 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。•She and her mother are as like as two peas. 她和她母亲长得一模一样.

•He is as blind as a beetle. 他的眼睛近视的很厉害。

•The boy was as cool as a cucumber throughout the action.

•在整个行动中这个男孩表现的非常沉着。

•Choose an author as you choose a friend.

•择书如择友。

•Mary is as proud as a peacock. She doesn’t talk with anybody.

•玛丽很高傲，她谁都不理。（骄傲的人）