2024年3月11日发(作者：)

Simile

1.

They are like the musketeers of Dumas … their thoughts

and feelings.

2.

The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion…ends of the

earth.

3.

…like clouds of flies.

4.

Everything is done… like inverted capital Ls…

5.

And really it was like watching a …armed men;flowing

peacefully up the road;while the great white birds drifted

over them in the opposite direction;glittering like scraps

of paper.

6.

My brain was as powerful as a dynamo; as precise as a

chemist’s scales; as penetrating as a scalpel.

7.

Same age;… but dumb as an ox.

8.

Peter lay … coat huddled like a great hairy…

9.

It was like digging a tunnel.

10.

I leaped to my feet; bellowing like a bull.

11.

Grandmother Macleod; her delicately featured face as rigid

as a cameo…

12.

… the fragrant globes hanging like miniature scarlet

lanterns on the thin hairy stems.

13.

At night the lake was like black glass…

14.

The jukebox was booming like tuneful thunder…

metaphor

1.

The fact that their marriages may be on the rocks;or that

their love affairs have been broken or even that they got out

of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern.

2.

…did not delve intoeach other’s lives or the recesses

of their thoughts and feeling.

3.

It was on such … suddenly the alchemy of conversation …

was a focus.

4.

The glow of the conversation burst into flames.

5.

We had traveled in five minutes to Australia.

6.

The conversation was on wings.

7.

As we listen… to think ourselves back into the shoes of

the Saxon peasant.

8.

I have an unending love affair with dictionaries…of

common sense.

9.

Even with the most educated and the most literate;the

King’s English slips and slides in conversation.

10.

When writes of -the sinister corridor of our age;we sit

up at the vividness of the phrase;the force and even terror

in the image.

11.

They rise out of the earth; they sweat and starve for a

few years;…are gone.

12.

Down the centre…a little river of urine.

13.

…in the past;… by riding the back of the tiger ended up

inside.

14.

But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey

of hostile powers.

15.

And let every other power know that this hemisphere intends

to remain the master of its own house.

16.

… we renew our pledge of support: to prevent it from

becoming merely a forum for invective; to strengthen its

shield of the new and the weak…

17.

… yet both… stays the hand of mankind’s final war.

18.

And if a beached of cooperation may push…

19.

The energy; the faith… will light our… and the glow from

that fire can truly light the world.

20.

… unfettered the informal… children.

21.

There follows… frontier.

22.

Read; then; the following… demonstrate that logic…

23.

“In other words; if you were out the picture; the field

would be open.

24.

First he looked at the coat with the expression of a waif

at a bakery window.

25.

I fought off a wave of despair.

26.

Maybe somewhere in the extinct crater of her mind; a few

embers still smoldered. Maybe somehow I could fan them into

flame.

27.

The first man has poisoned the well before…

28.

He has hamstrung his opponent before he could…

29.

Frantically I thought back the tide of panic…

30.

The rat

31.

… through the filigree of the spruce trees…

32.

…. and my new awareness that Piquette sprang from the

people of…

33.

… with a streak of amber which was the path of the moon.

mixed metaphor

1.

The charm of conversation is…it will go as it meanders

or leaps and sparkles or just glows.

2.

My brain; that precision instrument; slipped into high

gear.

metonymy 转喻;借代

1.

Is the phrase in Shakespeare

2.

… but I was not one to let my heart rule my head.

3.

Otherwise you have committed a Dicto Simpliciter.

4.

You are guilty of Post Hoc if you blame Eula Becker.

5.

… those voices belonged to a world separated by aeons from

our neat world of summer cottages and the lighted lamps

of home.

synecdoche提喻

1.

Other people may…in which the great minds are supposed…

2.

Still; a white skin is always fairly conspicuous.

3.

… actually has… a white skin.

4.

… both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly

atom…

5.

There is a limit to what flesh and blood can bear.

6.

The damn bone’s flared up again.

alliteration

1.

Even with the most educated and the most literate;the

King’s English slips and slides in conversation.

2.

They rise out of the earth; they sweat and starve for a

few years;…are gone.

3.

She accepted her…as a beast of burden.

4.

Let the word go forth from this time and place;to friend

and foe alike…

5.

… both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly

atom…

6.

… but a call to bear the burden of a long…

7.

… the same high standards of strength and sacrifice…

antithesis 对比

1.

We observe today … symbolizing an end as well as a

beginning; signifying renewal as well as change.

2.

For man holds… human poverty and …human life.

3.

United;there is little we cannot do in a host of

co-operative d;there is little we can

do;for we dare not meet a power ful challenge at odds and

split asunder.

4.

Let us never negotiate out of fear ; but let us never fear

to negotiate.

5.

... not as a call to bear… but a call to …

6.

It is; after all; easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart

than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful.

7.

Back and forth his head swiveled; desire waxing;

resolution waning.

8.

If there is an irresistible force; there can be no

immovable object. If there is an immovable object; there

can be no irresistible force.

9.

Look at me --- a brilliant student; a tremendous

intellectual; a man with an assured future. Look at

Petey--- a knothead; a jitterbug; a guy who’ll never know

where his next meal is coming from.

parallelism

1.

Let every nation know;whether it wishes us well or ill;that

we shall pay any price;bear any burden;meet any

hardship;suppor any friend;oppose any foe ;to assure the

survival and the success of liberty.

repetition 反复

1.

For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we

be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

personification

1．

The gazelle I was feeding seemed to know that this thought

was in my mind…not like me.

2．

The two grey squirrels were still there; gossiping at us…

3．

The water was always icy; for the lake was fed by springs…

transferred epithet 移就

1.

A carpenter sitscross-legged at a prehistoric

lathe;turning chair-legs at lightning speed.

2.

Instantly; from…there was a frenzied rush of

igarette.

3.

I said with a mysterious wink and closed my bag and left.

4.

… meticulously turning it round and round in his small

and curious hands.

5.

Piquette looked at me from her large dark unsmiling eyes.

6.

… I was ashamed; ashamed of my own timidity; the

frightened tendency to look the other way.

7.

Her defiant face; momentarily; became unguarded and

unmasked…

exaggeration/ hyperbole 夸张

1.

Perhaps it because of my upbringing in English pubs…its

own.

2.

My brain was as powerful as a dynamo; as precise as a

chemist’s scales; as penetrating as a scalpel.

3.

It is not often that one so young has such a giant

intellect.

4.

… he just … with mad lust…

5.

You are the whole world to me; and the moon and the stars

and the constellations of outer space.

6.

... dresses that were always miles too long.

7.

… those voices belonged to a world separated by aeons from

our neat world…

Elliptical sentence

1.

The little crowd of mourners –all men and boys;no

women—threaded their way across the market place between

the piles of pomegranates and the taxis and the

camels;wailing a short chant over and over again.

2.

No gravestone; no name; no identifying mark of any kind.

3.

Not hostile; not contemptuous; not sullen; not even

inquisitive.

4.

Emotional type. Unstable. Impression. Worst of all; a

faddist.

5.

‘In the library;’…

6.

Peter; why ....

7.

“Anything ” I asked; looking at him narrowly.

8.

Beautiful she was.

9.

One more chance…

10.

But just one more.

11.

Hasty Generalization

12.

Ad Misericordiam

13.

After he promised; after he made a deal; after he shook

my hand

Rhetorical questions

1.

Are they really the same flesh as …or coral insects

Onomatopoetic

1.

As the storks …winding up the road with a clumping of boots

and a clatter of iron wheels.

Understatement

1.

I am not commenting; merely pointing to a fact.

2.

This looked as a project of a small dimensions;…

Sarcasm

1.

Anyone can be sorry… owing to some kind of accident of or

even… of sticks.

Contrast

1.

As the storks flew northward the Negroes were marching

Allusion

1.

Just as Pygmalion loved the perfected woman hr had southward…

Inverted sentence

1.

In your hands; my fellow citizens;…

fashioned; so I loved mine.

2.

I was not Pygmalion; I was Frankenstein…

2.

Cool was I and logical.

3.

One more chance…

4.

Five grueling nights this took;…

Double negation

1.

It was not be thought that I was without love for this girl.

Analogy

1.

Just as Pygmalion loved the perfected woman hr had

fashioned; so I loved mine.

2.

I did not know what had happened to the birds. Perhaps they

had gone away to some far place of belonging. Perhaps they

had been unable to find such a place; and had simply died

out; having ceased to care any longer whether they lived

or not.