副词::figuratively
名词::figurativeness
"figurative language"
"a figural design"
"the figurative art of the humanistic tradition"
1.比喻的;借喻的
If you use a word or expression in afigurative sense, you use it with a more abstract or imaginative meaning than its ordinary literal one.
e.g. ...an event that will change your route — in both the literal andfigurative sense.
一个无论从字面还是比喻意义上来说都将改变你的路线的事件
2.(艺术风格)具象的，写实的
figurative art is a style of art in which people and things are shown in a realistic way.
figurative什么意思
e.g. His career spanned some 50 years and encompassed both abstract andfigurative painting.
他的职业生涯延续了大约50年，作品既有抽象画也有写实画。
1. 比喻：在使用语言表达意义时,人们往往不可避免地要涉及语言的字面(literal)用法和比喻(figurative)用法. 前者指语言表义是直接的直言;后者则是间接的比喻性的. 中国人很早就认识到了这一点,先秦时期就有譬与直言、譬喻与直告之说①.
2. 象征的：如(一)马铃薯、种子或基因同时是直接的(literal)和象徵的(figurative)(p41),理论上如何可能?→(二)科学技术相互指涉所建构的真实:「简单说,科技即是关於世界性的、物质化的、能指与所指的权力. 」(p43)-透过权威性的实践与论述所进行的互动回应.
3. 造型的：abstract 抽象派 |figurative 造型的 | brush 画笔
形象艺术家
She is, figuratively speaking, holding a gun to his head.打个比方说，她正拿枪对着他的脑袋。
...an event that will change your route 'u2014 in both the literal and figurative sense.一个无论从字面还是比喻意义上来说都将改变你的路线的事件
His career spanned some 50 years and encompassed both abstract and figurative painting.他的职业生涯延续了大约50年，作品既有抽象画也有写实画。
Similar and similarity surplus are a pair of chief categories of figurative thinking.相似和相似剩余是形象思维的一对主要思维范畴.
He imprisoned her, in a figurative sense.在比喻的意义上,他把她关在牢里了.
The figurative speech used with animal names is an important component part of English rhetoric.分析了英汉语言中动物名称隐喻所具有的特点,产生的原因及它们之间的异同.
Here the word is used in a figurative sense.这里该字是在比喻的意义上使用的.
When the meaning in extension is father from the original meaning, it is more figurative.当词义从本义向隐喻方向延伸的时候,离本义越远, 修辞性就越强.
What is the function of the figurative use of language?语言的比喻用法的功能是什么?
This figurative habit of his mind crippled his judgement.他思想上的这种爱好比喻的习惯,削弱了他的判断能力.
Baptism is a figurative ceremony.受洗礼是象征的礼节.
St. John's eyes, though clear enough a literal sense, a figurative one were difficult to fathom.圣约翰的眼睛, 虽然就表面的意义来说,是够明净的, 可是就比喻的意义来说,却是难以探测的.
The word here is used in its figurative sense.此词在这儿取的是它的比喻意义.
To facilitate figurative understanding of this chapter for the control of the results of visual programming.为了便于进行形象化的理解,本章进行了控制结果的可视化编程.
At the same time, all this diverse material is unified and made mysteriously figurative.与此同时, 所有这些多种多样的质料都得到统一,获得了神秘的形象.
This is a fine poem with many figurative expressions.这是一首好诗,其中有很多比喻.
The use of charcoal crayon translates in this evolution a less figurative style.在这个演化使用木炭蜡笔翻译不太形象化的风格.
I know we need to wean you from Harvard in a figurative sense.虽然我们会把你们比作已经从哈佛断奶的孩子们,但我从没想到会这么彻底.
It is no less figurative than metaphor.它的修辞性不比隐喻少.
In linguistics , there are different interpretations as to how to understand figurative language, i.比喻性语言是一种语用多义结构.
Additionally, this paper also discussed the domestic responses for new figurative painting from china.此外, 本文还探讨了来自中国本土对新具象绘画的回应.
It's a very figurative name.这个叫法倒是很形象.
No one was doing realistic figurative art other than cowboys and Indians.没有人正在做牛仔和印第安人之外的现实比喻的艺术.
If not, you are figurative language.如果不合适, 那就它们是具比喻性语言.
His career spanned some 50 years and encompassed both abstract and figurative painting.他的职业生涯延续了大约50年，作品既有抽象画也有写实画。
By a figurative..speech he declareth the horror..of the damned.
出自：Coverdale
