郝老师sat语法每日一讲——明喻暗喻.docVIP

郝老师sat语法每日一讲—7月5日—Simile 明喻 Simile：（明喻）用like, as, as…as, as if, as though, resemble, have a resemblance to, suggest, seem to等明显性词连接两类不同的事物。（1）（本体、喻体、喻词）缺一不可。（2）喻词必须是like, as, as…as, as if, as though等明显性喻词。(3) 两物在性质上十分不同，但在某一方面相似。 明喻与暗喻的区别：明喻把喻体和本体说成相似；暗喻干脆把本体和喻体说成是一致的。喻词。 1. 本体+动词+as/like+喻体 e.g.: The elephant is like a snake as anybody can see. He declared that whites and negroes could live together only as master and man. 2. As/Just as+喻体，so+本体+喻体 （就像B……一样, A也……） e.g.: As cold water to thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. Just as we sweep our rooms, so we should sweep backward ideas from our mind. 3. 本体+动词+as though/as if+喻体+动词 （A…….好像B……） e.g.: She looked both young and aging, as if she had just emerged from an illness or some crisis. He was a beautiful horse that looked as though he had come out of a painting by Velasquez. 4. What + 喻体，that+本体 （A对于……就象/好比B对于……一样） e.g.: What salt is to food, that wit and humor are to conversation. What food is to man, that manure is to crops. 5. 本体+to be+名词（本体）+what /as +喻体+to be+名词（喻体）（A对……好比B对……一样） e.g.: Reading is to be the mind what/as exercise is to the body. Air is to us what/as water is to fish. 6. 主语+动词+no more/less+本体+than+喻体或主语+not +本体+any more +than+喻体 （正如…一样） e.g.: Our village is no less beautiful than this picture. A student can no more obtain knowledge without studying than a farmer can get harvest without plowing. Nations are not to be judged by their size any more than individuals. 7. 本体+be+as…+喻体 （A象B一样…….） e.g.: Her face blushed, becoming as red as an apple. Death may be as heavy as Mount Tai or as light as a feather. The full green hills are (as) round and soft as breasts. 8. 主谓+not as/so+本体+as+喻体 (不是A，而是B) e.g.: He thought not so much of possible death as of the urgent need to win, to defeat the enemies. e.g.: Right now, it is not their accountants who are holding the companies back so much as their legal advisers