纯干货 | 英语隐喻知多少
今天我们来看看有趣的英文隐喻现象。White elephant 真正的含义是什么呢？在阅读中文翻译之前，试试看你能否猜出这些隐喻的意思~
1. White elephant
paraphrase：Having a possession which is either troublesome or useless and more so, one that might be very expensive or either difficult to maintain.
字面意思: 白象
隐含意思:一件又贵又没用的物品
2. Puppet government
paraphrase：A government that is manipulated by a foreign power
字面意思:傀儡政府
隐含意思: 一个被外国势力控制的政府
3.Cold feet
paraphrase: Having doubt that's so strong that it prevents a course of action that was planned.
字面意思: 冷脚
隐含意思: 丧失信心或勇气，胆怯
4. Landslide victory
paraphrase: An overwhelming victory for one side
字面意思: 滑坡胜利
隐含意思: 胜利一边倒的胜利
5. It is raining cats and dogs.
paraphrase: It's raining very heavy or you might be going through many hard things in life at once.
字面意思:下猫狗雨
隐含意思:下着倾盆大雨
6. Yin and Yang
paraphrase: There's good in bad and bad in good.
字面意思:阴和阳
隐含意思:好中有坏，坏中有好
7. Don't judge a book by its cover.
paraphrase: Do not judge something or someone based on appearance.
字面意思: 别用书的封面来判定一本书
隐含意思: 别以貌取人
8.Licked the bucket
paraphrase: It's a slang term meaning to die.
字面意思: 踢水桶
隐含意思: 去世了
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