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n. 明喻；直喻
复数：similes
Lister said people should follow the 1946 advice of writer George Orwell: "Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
李斯特说人们最好遵循作家乔治·奥威尔1946年提出的建议：“不要使用那些在各种出版物上频繁出现的暗喻、明喻或其他修辞格。”
If might be an image, a comparison, the finding of likeness between unlike things which is at the heart of metaphor and simile making.
也可能是一个意象，一个对比，在不同之物中寻找到的相同点，而这也是隐喻和明喻的内涵。
In Book One alone there are four primary instances of what we can think of as this primary simile dynamic.
仅第一本里就有四个主要的例证，我们可以看作最初的明喻来源的动力。
The simile is a common device and a useful one, but similes coming in rapid fire, one right on top of another, are more distracting than illuminating.
明喻是常用的修辞术，也很好用，但是像连珠炮式的比喻与其说是富有启发性，不如说是在转移注意力。
This is the simile of what I have just given to you.
不过这是我已经给予你们的明喻。
She used a simile to describe him.
她用了一个比喻来形容他。
