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The Translation of Figure of Speech By Li Ruiying Simile-明喻 A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. 常用 as , like 等词 明喻 (simile)： 用like, as, as...as, as if (though) 或用其他词语指出两个不同事物的相似之处。例如： O my loves like a red, red rose. 我的爱人像一朵红红的玫瑰花。 The man cant be trusted. He is as slippery as an eel. 那个人不可信赖。他像鳗鱼一样狡猾 Metaphor-暗喻 A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common. Time is money. 时间就是金钱。 The world is a stage. 世界是个大舞台。 Life is a journey.生命即旅程。 Life is a box of chocolate. 能直译则直译，不能直译则意译或加注释 比喻的翻译方法主要有：直译、直译加注、转换、意译等。 明喻一般直译；暗喻中英汉语共有的“A是B”结构比较适合直译； 带有文化内涵的习语型比喻常直译加注； 不适合直译的暗喻放弃比喻修辞，翻译意义。 He jumped back as if he had been stung, and the blood rushed into his wrinkled face. 他往后一跳，好像被什么东西叮了一下似的，他那张布满皱纹的脸顿时涨得通红。 潭西南而望，斗折蛇行，明灭可见。（柳宗元《小石潭记》） Viewed from the southwest, the pond sometimes zigzags like the shining Big Dipper and sometimes winds gloomily like a long creeping snake. 何等动人的一页一页！这是人类思维的花朵。（徐迟《哥德巴赫猜想》） What inspiring chapters! They are the flowers of the human brainwork. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. (William B. Yeats) 教育不是注满一桶水，而是点燃一把火。 月光如流水一般，静静地泻在这一片叶子和花上。薄薄的青雾浮起在荷塘里。叶子和花仿佛在牛乳中洗过一样；又像笼着轻纱的梦。 Like flowing streams, moonlight rushes down, silently clothing every leaf and flower. The lotus pond is cloaked in light mist. （Mist floats above the lotus pond.）The leaves and flowers are somewhat white now as though they had been bathed in milk. One will feel he is in a dream covered with thin gauze. Have a try 1. New York was never Mecca to me. And though I have lived there more than half my life, you won’t find me wearing an “I love New York” T-shirt………….. 2.把这个赵寡妇在屏风后急得像热锅上的蚂蚁一样。 纽约对于我来说绝不是麦加。虽然我已经在这里住了大半辈子，你却不会看到我穿上一件印有“我爱纽约”字样的T恤。 （麦加：位于沙特阿拉伯西部，伊斯兰教徒的朝圣地，后此专业名词普通化，意为“圣地”或“渴望之地”。 All this made Zhao the widow behind the scre