Of course I'm not. It was just a figure of speech.
我当然不是，这不过是打个比方。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
As a means of figure of speech, it is widely used in real communication.
作为一种修辞手段, 在语言交际中被广泛运用.
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Transferred epithet or hypallage is a common figure of speech in both English and Chinese languages.
移就或修饰语移置是英语和汉语中一种常见的修辞格.
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Of course this is just a figure of speech.
当然,这不过是一种形象化的说法.
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The fable is figure of speech, including noumenon and implication. Zhuangzi's fables are no ( exception ).
从修辞学的角度看,寓言乃是比喻, 有其本体和喻体, 《 庄子 》寓言自不能外.
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His disciples said, " Now are plainly, and not in any figure of speech. "
他的门徒便说: " 看,现在你明明地讲论, 不用什么比喻了.
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I didn't really mean she was in outer space it's just a figure of speech.
我不是说她真在外层空间 -- 这只是打个比方.
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It was just a figure of speech!
这只是一种比喻说法!
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Transferred epithet is a very figure of speech of great importance in language use.
摘要移就是语言使用中一个重要的修辞格.
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Irony is an often used figure of speech.
摘要反语是一种常用的修辞格.
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This figure of speech is plain and pungent.
这篇文章清晰而中肯.
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I't really mean my partner is a snake's just a figure of speech.
我并非真的说我的合伙人是条蛇,不过是打个比方.
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What's the figure of speech of the sentence?
这句话用了什么修辞格?
英汉 - 翻译样例 - 口语
A figure of speech a part is used for the whole.
一种以局部代表整体的修辞方法.
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Today, High Mountain and Running Water a figure of speech about the bosom friends.
今天, 人们用“高山流水”来比喻知心朋友.
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Since then this figure of speech has become quite vigorous on both sides of the Atlantic.
从这以后,这个比喻用法在大西洋两岸盛行起来.
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The most important function figure of speech is expression.
修辞格最重要的功能是表达功能.
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The passage employs a figure of speech called parallelism.
这句话运用了对仗的修辞方法.
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Quantitative hyperbole is common figure of speech in both Chinese and English.
数量夸张是汉语和英语所共有的修辞格.
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A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared.
一种修辞手法,把两种基本不相像的东西进行比较.
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I just said that it was like tank, a figure of speech.
听着,我说笑死了只是一种夸张的说法.
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Bourgeois Socialism attains adequate expression , when , and only when, it becomes a mere figure of speech.
资产阶级的社会主义只有在它变成纯粹的演说辞令的时候, 才获得自己的适当的表现.
英汉非文学 - 共产党宣言
Of course I'm not. It was just a figure of speech.
我当然不是，这不过是打个比方。
柯林斯例句