figure of speech metaphor

Levi was a working chemist, but the title is a metaphor and even this figure of speech is sometimes a little strained to comply with the book's scheme.

莱维的本职是一名化学家，但是这个书名用的是暗喻手法。 有的时候，这种修辞格与这本书的表达意图有些牵强附会。

This dissertation gives a brief review of traditional study on metaphor as a figure of speech first, and then introduces the cognitive view of metaphor.

本文先对传统的隐喻研究作了简单的回顾，引出隐喻研究的认知观。

Viewed as such, metaphor was called a figure of speech, and its study was confined mostly to literature and rhetoric (Lakoff 1986).

这样的话，隐喻就被称为是一种辞格，它的研究主要是限于文学和修辞方面(莱可夫1986)。