常见英语明喻形式 By 佚名

常见英语明喻形式

as absurd as putting together the pieces of vase

as bare as the back of one hand/a picked bone

as bald as a coot

as black as coal/ink/jet/midnight/pitch/soot/Styx/

as blind as a bat/beetle/mole

as bold as brass/a lion

as brave as a lion

as bright as a day/noonday/silver

as brittle as glass

as brown as berry

as busy as a bee

as changeable as weather/a clock/the moon

as cheerful as a lark

as clear as a bell/a day/crystal/ daylight/the nose on your face as close as a clam/an oyster

as common as dirty

as cold as ice/marble/a stone/a cucumber/a key/charity/frog as cool as a cucumber

as cross as a bear

as cunning as a fox

as dark as pitch

as dead as a door nail/mutton

as deaf as a post/a beetle/an adder

as deep as a wall

as different as chalk from cheese

as distinct as a day and night

as dry as dust/a stick/a bone/a biscuit

as drunk as a lord/a mouth/a sane

as dumb as a statue/an oyster/a fish

as dull as sawdust/cold dish water

as easy as ABC/lying/milking/shelling peas/my eye/an old shoe/going down the river/chasing a cow out of a meadow/pie/anything

as empty as a drum

as fair as a rose

as far as the eye could see

as fat as a pit/butter

as fierce as a tiger

as firm as rock

as fit as a flea/a fiddle

as flat as a pancake/a board

as free as a bird/air

as fleet (swift) as a deer

as fresh as a rose/a daisy

as gay as a lark

as gaudy as a butterfly/a peacock

as gentle as a lamb

as good as gold/a play

as graceful as a swan

as grave as a judge

as greedy as a dog/a wolf/a pig

as green as grass

as gruff as a bear

as happy as a lark/the day is long/a king

as hard as flint/marble/a stone/iron/nails

as harmless as a dove

as heavy as a lead

as healthy as the fresh wind

as hoarse as a crow

as hot as fire/pepper

as hungry as a wolf/a hunter

as innocent as a dove

as keen as mustard

as large as life

as light as air/a butterfly/a feather/a cork/thistledown/

as like as two peas/two drops of water/two pees/chalk and cheese

as loose as a rope of sand

as loud as thunder

as mad as a March hare/a hatter

as mean as Scrooge

as merry as a cricket

as motionless as statue

as mute as a fish/mice

as nimble as a squirrel

as noise as a mynah

as obstinate as a mule

as old as the hills

as pale as death/wax/a ghost

as patient as an ox

as plain as the nose on one's face/a pikestaff as pleased as Punch

as playful as a kitten

as plentiful as blackberries

as plump as a partridge

as poor as a church mouse/a beggar

as pretty as a picture

as proud as a peacock

as pure as the world of all