figurative

英 [ˈfɪɡərətɪv]

美 [ˈfɪɡjərətɪv]

adj.  比喻的; 形象的

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牛津词典

adj.

• 比喻的
  used in a way that is different from the usual meaning, in order to create a particular mental picture. For example, ‘He exploded with rage’ shows a figurative use of the verb ‘explode’.
• 形象的
  showing people, animals and objects as they really look
  1. a figurative artist
     形象艺术家

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 比喻的;借喻的
  If you use a word or expression in afigurativesense, you use it with a more abstract or imaginative meaning than its ordinary literal one.
  1. ...an event that will change your route — in both the literal and figurative sense.
     一个无论从字面还是比喻意义上来说都将改变你的路线的事件
• ADJ (艺术风格)具象的，写实的
  Figurativeart is a style of art in which people and things are shown in a realistic way.
  1. His career spanned some 50 years and encompassed both abstract and figurative painting.
     他的职业生涯延续了大约50年，作品既有抽象画也有写实画。

双语例句

• The architecture of the bridge stubbornly avoids any figurative reference, any metaphor: it is what it does.
  桥为建筑元素在此固执地避免任何形象化的参考、任何虚伪的比喻：它就是它。
• This figurative habit of his mind crippled his judgement.
  他思想上的这种爱好比喻的习惯，削弱了他的判断能力。
• This article probes into the cultural differences between English and Chinese languages, by way of a comparative and contrastive study on the figurative images of animal idioms in English and Chinese languages.
  摘要本文通过对英汉两种语言中的动物习语比喻形象的对比研究，探讨英汉两种语言所负载的文化信息差异。
• I tend to prefer figurative painting to abstract art.
  我倾向于爱好印象派绘画，而不喜欢抽象艺术。
• By demonstrating the lexical functions in the figurative speech with animal names, the article presents the rhetoric function of animal names in simile and metaphor.
  本文从动物比喻的词汇功能出发，通过实例对动物名称在明喻和暗喻中的修辞功能作一浅显分析，指明它与英语文化和思维方式密不可分。
• English poetry; figurative language; rhythm; interactive approach;
  英语诗歌；修辞语言；格律；互动法；
• Compared with a simile, a metaphor is less literal and more figurative.
  同明喻相比，暗喻不那么书面化而且更加形象化。
• It is of great importance for English teaching to analyze the characteristics of English and Chinese figurative expressions and clarify their respective cultural connotations.
  分析和归纳英汉动物比喻词的异同点并弄清它们各自的文化内涵对外语教学有着十分重要的意义。
• As a result, these two paintings represent his successful artistic transformation in the arena of abstract figurative.
  因此，这两个作品代表了他在艺术舞台上从现实主义成功转向抽象主义的最佳例子。
• He imprisoned her, in a figurative sense.
  在比喻的意义上，他把她关在牢里了。