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英文修辞手法与例句
英语修辞手法
12 级商务英语 1 班 高腾 学号 201222410201
1） Simile：
（明喻）It is a figure of speech which makes a comparison between two unlike elements
having at least one quality or characteristic in common. To make the comparison, words like as, as...as,
as if and like are used to transfer the quality we associate with one to the other. For example, As cold
waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.
明喻是将具有共性的不同事物作对比.这种共性存在于人们的心里,而不是事物的自然属性.标志词常用
like, as, seem, as if, as though, similar to, such as 等.
1.In his dream he saw the tiny figure fall as a fly 在他的梦中他看见那小小的人影像苍蝇一般地落了
下来。
————《英语文摘》2015-2
比喻形象生动，把人影比作苍蝇突出其渺小。
2.The old man’s hair is as white as snow.老人的头发雪白。
———The Washington Post
2） Metaphor：
（暗喻）It is like a simile, also makes a comparison between two unlike elements, but
unlike a simile, this comparison is implied rather than stated. For example, the world is a stage.
隐喻是简缩了的明喻,是将某一事物的名称用于另一事物,通过比较形成.
1.Life is an isthmus between two eternities. 生活是永恒的生死两端之间的峡道
——《21 century》2014-3
2.I had the muscle, and they made money out of it. 我有力气,他们就用我的力气赚钱.
————《英语文摘》2015-2
这里用肌肉代指力气，肌肉的功能也就是出力气，直接用肌肉来代表则用了暗喻手法，加强表达效果。
3）Personification:
（拟人）It gives human form of feelings to animals, or life and personal attributes
to inanimate objects, or to ideas and abstractions . For example, the wind whistled through the trees.
拟人是把生命赋予无生命的事物.
1.The sun smiled down on the green meadows 太阳向着绿茵茵的草地俯首微笑
————《natural science》2015-1
2.The ancient wilderness dreamed, stretched itself all open to the sun,and seemed to sigh with
immeasurable content.————《GUARDIAN》
古老的荒野做着梦, 直挺挺地躺在太阳下, 好像无限满足地叹了口气。
给荒野以人格，通过对荒野的描写展现出当时的情景，给人感同身受的感觉，也让画面更形象具体。
3.But the house was cold，closed，and unfriendly. 可是那房子冷漠无情，门窗紧闭，一点也不友好。
————《英语文摘》2015-3
4） Hyperbole:
（夸张）：
It is the deliberate use of overstatement or exaggeration to achieve emphasis.
For instance, he almost died laughing.
夸张是以言过其实的说法表达强调的目的.它可以加强语势,增加表达效果..
1.I was mad for success and on the news of success I went mad with joy.
我对于成功极度地渴望，每当听到我获得成功的消息，我都高兴得快疯了。
————《英语文摘》2015-2
2.1 want to crash you in my arms and cover you with all my kisses 我要拥你入怀，吻遍你。
————《LETTER》
“crash”与“cover”这两个动词用得如此精彩与顶极,将小伙子对爱人炽热真切的爱情渲泄得尽善尽美,
5）Euphemism:
（委婉） It is the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive（无冒犯） expression for
one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant. For instance, we refer to "die" as” pass away".
婉辞法指用委婉,文雅的方法表达粗恶,避讳的话
1.If anything happened to me, please take care of my wife and children.
————《英语学习报》2015.5
如果我有个三长两短的话，请照看我的妻子与小孩。
这里的 anything 可以指“不幸”，甚至“死亡”是
委婉的修辞格
2.用 sanitation engineer 替代 garbage man（清洁工）
3.用 the disadvantaged 替代 the poor（穷人）
4.用 industrial action 替代 strike（罢工）——《网络》
6）Metonymy （转喻）It is a figure of speech that has to do with the substitution of the mane of one
thing for that of another. For instance, the pen （words） is mightier than the sword （forces）.
借喻不直接说出所要说的事物,而使用另一个与之相关的事物名称.
1.When the war was over，he laid down the sword and took up the pen. 战争结束后，他弃戎从文
————《economist》
2.Sometimes the pen maybe mightier than the sword. 有时文人比武士更有力量。
————《economist》
3.The messenger was not long in returning, followed by a pair of heavy boot that came bumping
along the passage like boxes.
送信人不久就回来了, 后面跟着一个穿着笨重鞭子的人, 在过道里走得咯噔咯噔乱响, 像滚动的箱子
一样。
————《Reader’s Digest》
此例中 a pair of heavy boot （一双笨重的靴子） 属于 Metonymy 译文加词为“一个穿着笨重靴子的人”
4.The baby was brought up on the bottle. 这个婴儿是喝牛奶或羊奶长大的。
————《dope》
7）Synecdoche （提喻） It is involves the substitution of the part for the whole, or the whole for the
part. For instance, they say there's bread and work for all. She was dressed in silks.
提喻用部分代替全体,或用全体代替部分,或特殊代替一般
1. Many hand,make light woke. 局部代替整体,用 hands 表示干活的人 ————《economist》
2..The fox goes very well with your cap. 这狐皮围脖与你的帽子很相配. ————《Reader’s Digest》
3.6.It was reported that China won the volleyball match. 椐报载：
在这次排球赛中，中国队赢了。
————《21 century》
（以国家名称 China 代该国球队 the Chinese Volleyball Team）
8）Pun:
（双关语） It is a play on words, or rather a play on the form and meaning of words. For
instance, a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms. （Here "arms" has two meanings:
a
person's body; weapons carried by a soldier.）
双关就是用一个词在句子中的双重含义,借题发挥.作出多种解释,旁敲侧击,从而达到意想不到的幽默.滑稽
效果.它主要以相似的词形.词意与谐音的方式出现.
1.Make your every hello a real good-buy.让你的每地声“哈”都真的物有所值。
————《Nature Magazine》
2.We must all hang together, or we shall hang separately.
我们必须紧密地团结在一起, 否则我们将被一个个地绞死。
————《Reader’s Digest》
3.What do lawyers do when they die?
Lie still 律师死了干啥?
身子动弹不得, 嘴上撒谎依旧。
————《英语文摘》2014-9
原文通过谐音使用一种称为 Pun 的修辞格,构造出“一语双关”的艺术意境。
谐音之妙,顿生诙谐幽默。
要
传达出原作的这种美学效果,必须进行创造性翻译。
译文以汉语“对隅”辞格变通对译“ Lie still” ,通过
转换辞格,前后对照,使双重含义泾渭分明,从而使原文的妙处“失之东隅,收之桑榆”。
9）Irony:
（反语） It is a figure of speech that achieves emphasis by saying the opposite of what is
meant, the intended meaning of the words being the opposite of their usual sense. For instance, we are
lucky, what you said makes me feel real good.
Irony 的含义比汉语的反语广泛。
它包括 verbal irony, dramatic irony, situational irony。
也是正话反说，
反话正说，一般需借助于特定的上下文与语境才能被正确理解。
在多数情况下， irony 可以译成汉语的反
语。
1.She talked about great people as if she had the fee-simple of May fair, and when the court went
into mourning, she always wore black.————《英语文学周报》2015-
1
她一开口就是某某勋爵某某大人，那口气竟好象她生来就是贵族。
宫里有了丧事，她没有一回不穿孝。
2.The house detective’s piggy eyes surveyed her scornfully from his gross jeweled face.
————《英语文学周报》2015-2
探长用他那双夹在面部隆起的肉堆中的猪眼睛轻蔑地将她上下打量了一番。
用反语修辞格讽刺意味浓厚，
3.The Bible," he thundered in his sonorous organ tones, " is not going to be driven out of this court by e
xperts who come hundreds of miles to testify that they can reconcile evolution, with its ancestors in the
jungle, with man made by God in His image and put here for His purpose as part of a divine plan.
————《读者文摘》2014-3
“《圣经》，”他用洪亮的嗓音大喊大叫道，“是不会被那些千里迢迢赶来作证的学者专家们赶出这个法
庭的。
这些专家们来到这里的目的是想证明主张人类祖先来自丛林的进化论与上帝按照天机，依其形象创
造人类并安排到这个世界上来的看法，是并行不悖的。
”
4.“ If people keep telling you to quit smoking cigarettes, don' t listen..... they' re probably trying
to trick you into living.”————《American Cancer Society》
这是一则反语在广告中使用的极好例证。
不是说教般告诉人们“ Smoking is harmful to your health”,该
公益广告以反语的形式将这个意思表达了出来,从而创造出轻松而幽默的氛围,使他更易于被读者接受。
10） Innuendo:
（暗讽） It is a mild form of irony, hinting in a rather roundabout （曲折）way at
something disparaging（不一致） or uncomplimentary（不赞美） to the person or subject mentioned. For
example, the weatherman said it would be worm. He must take his readings in a bathroom.
反语指用相反意义的词来表达意思的作文方式.如在指责过失.错误时,用赞同过失的说法,而在表扬时,
则近乎责难的说法.
1.This diligent student seldom reads more than an hour per month.————《Reader’s
Digest》
这个勤奋的学生每个月读书时间不超过一小时。
2.he is a man who is most dependable when you are not in need————《free talk》
你不需要时他总是最值得依赖的
11）Allegory （讽喻） an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe
some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor 建立在假借过去或别处的事例与对象
之上，传达暗示，影射或者讥讽现世各种现象的含义。
1.there is no garden without its weed表面意思没有不长草的花园，言外之意没有什么是完美的
————《Fortune》
2.A proof of the budding is in the eating 表面意思布丁好不好，吃了才知道，言外之意实践出真知
————《Forbes》
12）Paradox:
（仿拟） It is a figure of speech consisting of a statement or proposition which on the
face of it seems self-contradictory, absurd or contrary toestablished fact or practice, but which onfurther
thinking and study may prove to be true, well-founded, and even to contain a succinct point. For
example more haste, less speed.
这是一种模仿名言.警句.谚语,改动其中部分词语,从而使其产生新意的修辞.
1.More haste, less speed。
欲速则不达————《Reader’s Digest》
2.The child is the father to the man。
（童年时代可决定人之未来）三岁看大，四岁看老。
————《英语文摘》2015-3
3.Rome was not built in a day, nor in a year。
罗马不是一天建成的，一年也不行。
————《经济学人》2015-4
13）Oxymoron:
（矛盾修饰）It is a compressed paradox, formed by the conjoining（结合） of two
contrasting, contradictory or incongruous terms as in bitter-sweet memories, orderly chaos（混乱） and
proud humility。
这也是一种矛盾修辞法,用两种不相调与的特征形容一个事物,以不协调的搭配使读者领悟句中微妙的含
义.
1.A miserable，merry Christmas. 悲喜交加的圣诞节。
————《经济学人》
2.He called my conviction a victorious defeat. 他称这次庭审结果是一次“胜利的失败”。
————《Reader’s Digest》
3.It [New York]has the poorest millionaires, the littlest great man, the haughtiest beggars, the plainest
beauties, the lowest skyscrapers, the dolefulest pleasures of any town I ever saw.
———O. Henry
这座城市（指纽约）里有的是心灵最空虚的百万富翁,人格最渺小的伟人,最目空一切的乞丐,最使人瞧不上眼
的美女,最肮脏龌龊的摩天大楼,与最乏味的娱乐,比我所见到过的任何城市都有过之而无不及。
原文中一连用了六个 Oxymoron 辞格,十分生动、形象地描述了作者对大都市纽约的印象,从而深刻地揭
示了纽约在繁华背后隐藏着丑陋的双重性,极富哲理,发人深省。
14）Antithesis:
（对照） It is the deliberate arrangement of contrasting words or ideas in balanced
structural forms to achieve emphasis. For example, speech is silver; silence is golden.
这种修辞指将意义完全相反的语句排在一起对比的一种修辞方法.
1.Not that I loved Caesar less but that I loved Rome more.
不是我不喜欢凯撒，而是我更喜欢罗马 这是《凯撒大帝》里的台词 将意义相反的语句并列在一起
做对比突出表达效果。
2.Give me liberty, or give me death. 给我自由，否则杀了我。
————《Reader’s Digest》
15）Climax:
（渐进） It is derived from the Greek word for "ladder" and implies the progression of
thought at a uniform or almost uniform rate of significance or intensity, like the steps of a ladder
ascending evenly. For example, I came, I saw, I conquered.
这种修辞是将一系列词语按照意念的大小.轻重.深浅.高低等逐层渐进,最后达到顶点.可以增强语势,逐渐加
深读者印象.
1. I came, I saw, I conquered. 我来了，看了，征服了
2.Social position,friends,reputation,life itself,had no longer any attraction for him.
社会地位、朋友、名誉、生活本身对他再没有什么吸引力了.
分析：
通过渐进逐步过渡到高潮，在两个句子中分别达到了突出表达与强调的作用。
16） Apostrophe：
（顿呼） In this figure of speech, a thing, place, idea or person （dead or absent） is
addressed as if present, listening and understanding what is being said.
1.England!
awake!
awake!
awake!
英格兰，醒来吧，醒来吧，醒来吧————《经济学人》2015-4
2.Who is like You, O Lord, among the gods?
耶与华啊，众神之中谁能像你？
————《圣经》
分析：
突然的发出，表现强调。
17）Anti-climax or bathos:
（突降） It is the opposite of Climax. It involves stating one's thoughts in
a descending order of significance or intensity, from strong to weak, from weighty to light or frivolous.
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