| 单词 | dead metaphor |
| 例句 | When I visit the local branch of my bank, I don’t think of this vast business as a tree, but ‘branch’ here is a dead metaphor. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z If I measure the volume of a sphere, the language I am using is a dead metaphor. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This show’s centerpiece, “Burned Bridge,” turns a dead metaphor and a pile of reclaimed lumber into a haunted, commanding sculpture. Art In Review: MARIANNE VITALE 2012-02-09T22:53:27Z He was fascinated by the possibilities of reanimating a dead metaphor, playing with the bromidic visual formulae of mass culture, asking questions about inarticulacy, probing the tension between surface and depth. From heresy to visionary 2013-02-23T09:01:01Z He has lost that essential sloppiness that allows the rest of us to drift untroubled through dead metaphors, misleading statements and absurd exaggerations — the grease that keeps the machinery of modern life spinning along. In ‘The One-Eyed Man,’ Ron Currie has created a character for our times 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Elegy” sees the “economics vs. culture” divide as a dead metaphor—a form of manipulation rather than explanation more likely to conceal the truth than to reveal it. The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z In fact, arguably “priming the pump” is now a “dead metaphor,” or a metaphor in which the original evocative meaning is largely lost. Priming the Pump: The Economic Metaphor Trump ‘Came Up With’ 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z A lecture on “Caribbean Culture” is delivered by a “bore” who “was harping in dead metaphor / the horror of colonial heritage.” The Post-Postcolonial Poet 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z This kind of ‘high falutin’’ has become part of our regular mental habit, just as dead metaphors by the bushel are a part of our daily language. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Live and dead metaphor; some pitfalls; self-consciousness and mixed metaphor. Society for Pure English, Tract 11 Three Articles on Metaphor It is indeed the mark of a dead metaphor that it escapes absurdity only by being dead. Society for Pure English, Tract 11 Three Articles on Metaphor But the effect of habitual and dead metaphor is to dull attention. Society for Pure English, Tract 11 Three Articles on Metaphor Further, the use of dead metaphor weakens a writer's sense of the connexion between mood and manner. Society for Pure English, Tract 11 Three Articles on Metaphor If eloquence is reason fused with emotion, writing, or speaking, full of dead metaphors is unreason fused with sham emotion. Society for Pure English, Tract 11 Three Articles on Metaphor But dead metaphors will not lie quietly together if there was repugnance between them in life; e'en in their ashes live their wonted fires, and they get up and fight. Society for Pure English, Tract 11 Three Articles on Metaphor I add in illustration a further list of dead metaphors lately noticed: 'Branches of the same deadly Upas Tree. Society for Pure English, Tract 11 Three Articles on Metaphor |
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