一、明喻【Simile】
1、?用like表示
The Great Wall of China, the longest wall in the world, runs across north China like a huge dragon.??? Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass.? 【John Ruskin】
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen for him to crow.? 【George Eliot】
Marriage is like a beleaguered fortress: those who are without want to get in, and those within want to get out.? 【P. M. Quitard】
They will never be able to save money to buy a new house---they both spend money like water.
2、?用as表示
??? Every tree and every branch was encrusted with bright and delicate hoarfrost, white and pure, as snow, delicate and defined as carved ivory.??? His face was as grey as ashes.
??? As the lion is king of beasts, so is the eagle king of birds.
3、?用what表示
??? What light is to the eye knowledge is to the mind.?? Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.?? Judicious praise is to the children what the sun is to flowers.
4、?用the way表示??? I should smell it the way a cat smells a mouse.
5、?用might (may) as well…(as)表示
You might as well expect the sun to rise in the west as hope to move me.
You might as well teach a cat to swim as teach him to learn English.
6、?用 (no) more…than / not…any more than表示
A home without love is no more than a body without a soul.
Nations are not to be judged by their size any more than individuals.
7、?用of短語表示
Who might he be, that black pillar of a man?? Her son is shy of persons; he is a girl of a boy.
8、?用as if (though)表示
The first time I read an excellent book, it was to me as if I had gained a new friend.
9、?用and表示?? Truth and rose have thorns about them.? Love and a cough cannot be hid.
二、暗喻【Metaphor】
1、?S＋be＋R
Life is a journey.? Experience is the mother of wisdom.? The boy is only skin and bone.
2、?S＋be＋not＋R
Praise is not pudding.? Knowledge is not always a water that washes away vice.
3、?S---R?? America---the Melting Pot?? Proverbs in conversation---torches in darkness.
4、?S＋R; /,/? /and/ S＋R
Politeness is required in man; scent is required in a flower.
A mirror is of no use to a blind man, nor knowledge to a man without discernment.
A bird is known by its note and a man by his talk.
5、?No S, no R??? No bees, no honey; no work, no money.? No pains, no gains.
6、?只出現(xiàn)R，不出現(xiàn)S
A silver plate is rising up in the sky.? The backbone of the team is over there.
7、?名詞1＋of＋名詞2?? Poor Joe lives in that match-box of a house.
He is young, broad of back, full of vigor, ---really a giant of man.
8、?用動詞表示??? Waves thundered against the rocks.? 水浪猛烈地拍擊著巖岸。
三、擬人法【Personification】
1、?把適應(yīng)于“人”的動詞、形容詞來敘述、描寫“物”
And the sun looked over the mountain’s rim.?? Life has cheated her.?
Inflation has robbed him of his savings.
2、?把抽象的概念當(dāng)作“人”寫??? He is the flavored child of Fortune.?
Rest, Good Cheer, and Moderate Diet are the three best doctors.
The clock on the wall ticked loudly and lazily, as if it had time to spare. Outside the rattling windows there was a restless whispering wind. The room grew light and dark, and wondrous light again, as the moon played hide-and seek through the clouds.
3、?把無形的“物”當(dāng)作“人”寫
One day the sun and the wind had a quarrel.? The wind sighed in the treetops.
Laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.? 【B. Franklin】
Liquor talks mighty loud when it gets loose from the jug.
A lie can travel half away around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. 【Twain】
The twentieth century is only the nineteenth speaking with a slightly American accent.
4、?把有生“物”當(dāng)作“人”寫
The bear said, “Don’t trust those who leave their friends the moment they get into difficulty.”
5、?把適用于“人”的稱謂用于“物”，并用人稱代詞來指代它
China will always do what she has promised to do.
The “Victory” is due in tomorrow, isn’t she?
四、夸張【Hyperbole】
1、?使用數(shù)詞
She is sitting here, but her mind is a hundred miles away.?? I beg you a thousand pardons.
Today’s life is one thousand times better than that of pre-liberation days.
He will leave a bad name for ten thousand years.? We enjoy every minute of the play.
2、?使用形容詞和副詞的最高級形式
“I’m the happiest man in the world,” he whispered to himself.? It is a most touching story.
3、?使用表示否定意義的詞
The confusion was indescribable.? Guilin’s beauty is beyond praise.?
That’s an unlimited expanse of ocean.? We will never parley; we will never negotiate.
4、?使用名詞或名詞重復(fù)
He was confronted with a difficulty of difficulties.?? He committed the sin of sins.
5、?使用形容詞
The cost mounted to astronomical figures.? He has an encyclopaedic knowledge of China.
6、?使用動詞?? Blood streams down from his forehead.?? Tanks thundered down the road.
7、?使用短語
She shed a flood of tears.? There is a world of differences between these two cities.
8、?借助其他修辭方式的夸張??? The news came like a bolt from the blue.
五、曲言【Litotes or Understatement】
1、?輕描淡寫 ( 用rather, quite, pretty, almost, a bit代替very )
She’s rather good-looking.? He has written quite a number of novels.? My friend was a bit upset by his son’s death.? She was a little annoyed when she found her valuable vase broken.
2、?用反說代替正說 ( 常用含蓄的否定的方式，常使用no, not, never, none, little, hardly等)
The man is no fool.? He has no small chance of success.? I couldn’t be happier.
His teacher said he wasn’t very bright and that he wasn’t worth teaching.
He conducted the experiment with no little enthusiasm.? Similar mistakes are not uncommon.
3、?弦外之音 ( 婉轉(zhuǎn)說法，用于代替直言不諱)
The beauty of Guilin is more than I can describe.? You should have been here earlier.
六、委婉語【Euphemism】
使用對方比較容易接受的詞語或語句，來表達(dá)作者或說者真實(shí)的認(rèn)識、態(tài)度和感情。
??? He had been left alone for scarcely two minutes, and when we came back we found him in an armchair, peacefully gone to sleep---but forever.?? The girl is hard of hearing.?
She is in the family way.? She is expecting.? Thank you for not picking the flowers.
??? And, it being low water, he went out with the tide.? 【Charles Dickens】
??? If you will allow me, I will call your marriage for you.? 【Oscar Wilde】
??? The boy used to take things without permission [偷竊] and has just been out of the rehabilitation home [康復(fù)中心 (教養(yǎng)所)] in the country.
??? I’m afraid she can’t act that part--- she is a little on the plump side. [有些發(fā)福]
??? He was both out of pocket and out of spirits by that catastrophe, failed in his health and prophesied the speedy ruin of the empire.? 【Thackeray: Vanity Fair】
??? We have come here to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who have gave their lives that that nation might live. 【Lincoln:? Gettysburg Address】
??? ** disabled; handicapped; inconvenienced; auditory-impaired; sight-deprived; feel one’s age.
七、借代【Metonymy】
1、?可以突出事物的特征，增強(qiáng)語言的形象性?
The river is crowded with masts. 河中帆檣林立。
2、?可以使文章簡潔明快
Then the surgeon cut me open and took out the appendix.?? He is meeting the press now.
3、?可以使語言生動有變化，不死板
Wall Street;? the White House;? Downing Street;? the Pentagon
4、?可以充分抒發(fā)作者的感情，鮮明表現(xiàn)作者的立場
Please drink a cup or two.? There is a mixture of the tiger and the ape in the character of a Frenchman.?? The kettle is boiling.? The pen is mightier than the sword.? Have you read Dickens and Scott??? Were it not for your help, I should have met my Waterloo.
八、雙關(guān)【Pun】[諧音雙關(guān)、語義雙關(guān)]
1、?利用一詞多義現(xiàn)象
--- Why may carpenters reasonably believe there is no such thing as stone?
--- Because they never saw one.
--- Why is a river always rich?? --- Because it always has two banks.
2、?借助成語
--- Why is crow the bravest bird in the world?? --- Because it never shows the white feather.
--- What weather do mice most dislike?? --- When it’s raining cats and dogs.
3、?借助上下文，進(jìn)行各種聯(lián)想
A little boy came to his mother. “Ma,” he said, “I have something to tell you. My teacher kissed me.”?? “Well, were you a good boy and did you kiss her back?”
“Of course not!” he denied indignantly. “I kissed her face.”
九、軛式搭配法【Zeugma】
是用一個詞 (通常V, Adj, Prep) 同時支配或修飾兩個或兩個以上的名詞，但其中只有一個搭配是合乎邏輯的，而另一個搭配是牽強(qiáng)附會，不合邏輯的。
1、?一個動詞支配兩個名詞
At noon Mrs. Turpin got out of bed and humor, put on Kimono, airs, and the water to boil for coffee.? …起床了,也不太高興；穿上和服，裝出氣派，放上水壺?zé)疀_咖啡。
Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave. She possessed two false teeth and a sympathetic heart.
2、?一個形容詞修飾兩個名詞
It is better to have a patched jacket than to have a patched character.
Yesterday he had a blue heart and coat.? They have gone with weeping eyes and hearts.
3、?一個介詞與兩個名詞連用
Miss Bolo rose from the table considerably agitated, and went straight home, in a flood of tears and a sedan chair.? She was dressed in a maid’s cap, a pinafore, and a bright smile.
十、反語【Irony】
用一種相反的話來表達(dá)自己的意思。常含譏諷、厭惡、不滿、責(zé)難、威脅等感情色彩
1、?注意整個語言環(huán)境的烘托和上下文呼應(yīng)
“You’re telling stories! But what’s the central point?” said he ironically.
Daniel said, “I told Tom not to do such a silly thing, but he turned a deaf ear to my advice.”
---“Humph! Let him do it!”
2、?所說明的事物必須是大家所熟悉的
Robbing a widow of her savings was certainly a noble act.
“I don’t care about it,” said Tom. “But much I care!” Mary sneered.
The public is wonderfully tolerant--- it forgives everything except genius. 【W(wǎng)ilde】
His designs were strictly honorable; that is to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
Chivalry: going about releasing beautiful maidens from other men’s castle, and taking them to your own castle.?? He was such a marvelous teacher that whenever he recognized a spark of genius you could be sure he’d water it.?
3、?可用反詰【rhetorical question】來表示反語
Who can care for her?? Why are you driving so fast? Don’t you know the traffic regulations?
4、?口頭上常用特殊的語調(diào)表示反語，書面上常用斜體字，黑體字或詞語下面加橫線表明。
“Do I love him? Who wouldn’t love a cheat, a liar, and a scoundrel?”
十一、遞升法【Climax】
運(yùn)用這種修辭手法，能夠使要表達(dá)的思想加深，感情逐步強(qiáng)化，因而能夠增強(qiáng)語言的說服力和感染力
1、?以程度的深淺，語意的輕重的順序來排列語句
I am sorry, I am so very sorry, I am so extremely sorry.?? I admire her, I love her, I need her.
When we heard the good news, we clapped their hands, sang and danced and jumped for joy.
2、?以范圍的大小順序來排列語句
He wanted to educate his children, serve this country, and satisfy his God.
He gazed upon the pretty houses, green hills and the broad Pacific.
3、?以時間的先后順序來排列語句?? They came, they played, they conquered.?
The prisoner was first questioned, then tortured, and finally shot.
【遞降法 Anticlimax】
He lost his empire, his family and his fountain pen.
A woman who could face the very devil…or a mouse--- lose his grip and goes all to piece in front of flash of lightning.? [Mark Twain]
十二、矛盾法【Oxymoron】
1、?形容詞＋名詞
It is an open secret that the scientist and the nurse are already of one mind.
He is a clever fool.?? He lived a life of active idleness.
The mother is undergoing the joyful pain, and the painful joy of childbirth.
2、?形容詞＋形容詞
They are poor rich guys.? I like sweet-sour pork.? That was one of his bitter-sweet memories.
3、?副詞＋形容詞
What he said is falsely true.? She looked tall and splendid alone.
“Have you shot the goat and frightened the tiger to death,” said Miss Mebbin, with her disagreeably pleasant laugh.
4、?動詞＋副詞
At last they hastened slowly. 他們慢慢地快起來。The moon shone darkly. 暗淡地發(fā)光。
5、?名詞＋名詞??? They had a love-hate relationship.?? That’s a life-and-death struggle.?
【反論 Paradox】
More haste, less speed.? No news is good news.? Once a man and twice a child.
I love him so much that I hate him when he looks at another woman.
十三、設(shè)問【Rhetorical Question】
是一種無疑而問，或胸中早有主見而故意設(shè)問
1、?激問
**If this belief from Heaven be sent,?? 如果這個信仰是上天賜予的，
If such be Nature’s only plan,?????? 如果自然界的神圣計劃就是如此，
Have I not reason to lament??????? 難道我沒有理由悲嘆
What man has made of man??????? 人把人變成了什么?。? 【W(wǎng)ordsworth】
** There are no speeches; for who can speak at such a moment?
What would have happened if she had never lost those jewels? Who knows? 【Maupassant】
2、?設(shè)問
What business is it of yours?? You mind your own affairs.? 【B. Shaw】
Where has it gone?? It has been turned into water by heat.
十四、移位法【Transferred Epithet】
將描寫甲事物性狀的詞語移來描寫乙事物的性狀
1、?形容詞由人轉(zhuǎn)移到指物，即從具有某種特性的人轉(zhuǎn)到與這種特性相關(guān)的物
The enemy fled in a blind haste.? Roosevelt listened with bright-eyed, smiling attention.
** a happy day; sleepy language; drunken prophecies; a smiling reply; a wise choice; cold facts; trembling terror; blood money; angry brow [怒容]; a fiery temper; nervous hours
2、?形容詞由指物轉(zhuǎn)移到指人
He is a straightforward person.? My father is a solemn scholar of physics.
十五、排比【Parallelism】
1、單詞平行
Civilized man arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers and the Bible.
An Englishman thinks seated; a Frenchman, standing; an American, pacing; an Irishman, afterward.? 【O’ Malley】
2、短語平行
?? Studies serve for delight, for ornament, for ability.? 【Francis Bacon】
?? We can gain knowledge, by reading, by reflection, by observation or by practice.
?? Read not to contradict and confuse; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.? 【Francis Bacon】
?? Their powers of conversation were considerable. They could describe an entertainment with accuracy, relate an anecdote with humor, and laugh at their acquaintance with spirit.
3、?從句平行
They vanish from a world where they were of no consequence; where they achieved nothing; where they were a mistake and failure and a foolishness; where they left no sign that they had existed.
4、句子平行
?? We are caught in war, wanting peace. We are torn by division, wanting unity.
?? A woman’s whole life is a history of affections. The heart is her world; it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. 【W(wǎng)ashington Irving】
?? We shall fight him by land, we shall fight him by sea, we shall fight him in the air.
?? The world listens. The world watches. The world waits to see what we will do.
?? I am very fond of the company of ladies: I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.?? 【S. Johnson】
?? No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.? 【Herbert Spencer】
十六、平行對照 [對偶]【Antithesis】
1、?單詞?? Knowledge make humble, ignorance make proud.
2、?短語?? One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.
3、?從句?? The world will little now note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
4、?句子
Money is a good servant but a bad master.?? Work has a bitter root but sweet fruit.??
Short accounts make long friends.? The life of the wolf is the death of the lamb.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
*An optimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; a pessimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Ask not what your country can do for you---ask what you can do for your country.
Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
If the economy stays down, can conservatives stay up?
*We find ourselves rich in goods, but ragged in spirit, reaching with magnificent precision for the moon, but falling raucous discord on earth.
*If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
*I take thee to my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and cherish, till death do we part, according to God’s holy ordinance, and thereto I plight thee my troth.
十七、對照【Contrast】
?? Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. 【J. F. Kennedy】
?? They are wonderful when they are good, he thought. There is no people like them when they are good and when they go bad there is on people that is worse.? 【E. Hemingway】
?? To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. 【W(wǎng)ashington】
?? Men always want to be a woman’s first love; women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man’s last romance.? 【Oscar Wilde】
?? Are not there little chapters in everybody’s life, that seems to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?? 【W(wǎng)illiam M. Thackeray: Vanity Fair】
?? A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back again when it begins to rain.? 【Robert Frost】
?? The church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down. 【Ingersoll】
十八、反復(fù)【Repetition】
1、?連續(xù)反復(fù)
There are three things which the public will always clamor for sooner or later, namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.? 【Thomas Hood】
Scrooge went to bed again, and thought, and thought, and thought it over and over again.
*Arise, arise, arise!????????????????????????? 起來，起來??！起來！
?There is blood on the earth that denies ye bread;? 不為你們生產(chǎn)糧食的土地出現(xiàn)了鮮血；
?Be ye wounds like eyes,???????????????????? 讓你們的傷口都化為眼睛，
?To weep for the dead, the dead, the dead.??????? 哭泣那些死去的，死去的，死去的。
2、?間隔反復(fù)
【首語重復(fù) Anaphora】
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Revolution is bloody, revolution is hostile, revolution knows no compromise, revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.? 【Malcolm X】
*Farewell to the mountains high covered with snow!
?Farewell to the straths and green valleys below!
?Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods!?? 【Robert Burns:】
?Farewell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods!??? 【My Heart’s in the Highlands】
No great general ever arose out of a nation of cowards; no great statesman or philosopher out of a nation of fools; no great artist out of a nation of materialists; no great dramatist except when the drama was the passion of the people. 【James A. Froude: the History of England】
?? 【尾語重復(fù) Epistrophe】
And will you, will you, I will marry you.? 【W(wǎng). Shakespeare】
O youth! The strength of it! The faith of it, the imagination of it!? 【Joseph Conrad】
?? 【首尾反復(fù)＋首尾反復(fù)】
Broke oath on oath, committed wrong on wrong.
With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, confusion worse confounded.
Nothing can come of nothing.?? Blood must atone for blood.
?? 【逆轉(zhuǎn)反復(fù) Antistophe】
For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky? Lay a load on my weary eye.
It was the same everywhere, crime and betrayal, betrayal and crime.? 【Jack London】
When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.
The soldier faces the powder while the beauty powders the face.
十九、仿擬【Parody】
這是一種巧妙、機(jī)智、而有趣的修辭格。它有意仿照人們熟知的現(xiàn)成的語言材料，根據(jù)表達(dá)的需要臨時創(chuàng)造出新的語、句、篇來，以使語言生動活潑，或諷刺嘲弄，或幽默詼諧，妙趣昂然。在運(yùn)用時所仿擬的一般是人們所熟知的語言材料，如成語、諺語、明言、警句。
1、I had no outlook, but an uplook rather. My place in society was at the bottom.
?????????????????????????????????? 【Jack London: What Life Means to Me】
2、Modern journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest. 【Oscar Wilde】? [the survival of the fittest]??
現(xiàn)代的新聞工作，以“最庸俗者生存”的偉大的達(dá)爾文式的原則來為自己的存在辯護(hù)。
3、Where there is a will, there is a lawsuit.? 有遺囑必有官司。
4、Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! 小小蝙蝠眨眼睛，?
How I wonder what you’re at! 你在干嘛我說不清，??
Up above the world you fly! 高高在上把翅展，??
Like a teatray in the sky! 好似空中一茶盤。
5、To eat is human; to digest, divine. 【Mark Twain】[To err is human; to forgive, divine]
6、One nonlinguistic explanation of failure at school is that you can take a child to Euclid but you can’t make him think.??? 7、Red Star Over Hongkong.? 【Times, July14, 1997】
8、Let us have faith that right makes might and dare to do our duty as we understand it.
?? 【Abraham Lincoln】 讓我們相信公理即強(qiáng)權(quán)，明白職責(zé)就要敢于盡職。
9、To Lie Or Not To Lie--- The Doctor’s Dilemma
【To be, or not to be: that is the question.? Hamlet】
10、“I won’t have Ralph upset. After all,” she grinned, “a husband in hand is worth two in bush.”? [A bird in hand is worth two in bush.]
11、A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.
12、Socialism places the human being at the center of things, not the machine, not the Almighty Dollars, not the maximum profits of billionaires.? [the Almighty God]
13、He intended to take an opportunity this afternoon of speaking to Irene. A word in time saves nine…【John Galsworthy】 [A stitch in time saves nine.]
14、Don’t put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today. 【Josh Billings】
15、---“I was brought up rich.”? ---“Yeah,” I said, “You were born with a Cadillac in your mouth.”???? [to be born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth]
20、引喻【Allusion】
適當(dāng)運(yùn)用它可做到事出有典，言之有據(jù)，使表達(dá)簡潔、凝練、精辟、生動。
1、What will it be when the increase of yearly production is brought to a complete stop? Here is the vulnerable place, the heel of Achilles, for a capitalistic production. [致命的弱點(diǎn)]
2、Book is a vehicle of learning and enlightenment, an open sesame to countless joys and sorrow.? [《天方夜談》秘訣、關(guān)鍵]
3、Research, from being the Cinderella of industry, would become its favored child.
4、Their new constitution was a fig leaf to conceal their betrayal of the masses. [無花果葉]
5、The ignorant simply preached that Negroes were not human and not the “child of God.”
6、“You want your pound of flesh, don’t you?”? [Doris Lessing: In Pursuit of the English]
7、The candidate met his waterloo in the national elections.?
8、Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.? 誰能做自己靈魂的哥倫布，誰就是幸福。
21、擬聲法【Onomatopoeia】
1、?模擬人聲
murmur (咕噥),? whisper (耳語聲),? giggle (咯咯笑聲),? hum (哼),? ouch (哎呀),? hush (噓),? chuckle (抿著嘴輕聲地笑),? mutter (輕聲低語),? en (嗯),? hi (喂),? chatter (嘮叨),? whoop (喘氣聲),? babble (胡言亂語, 含糊不清地說)
2、?模擬家禽與飛鳥聲
cock---crow,? hen—cackle,? chicken---cheep,? duck---quack,? goose---cackle,? dove---coo,? magpie---chatter,? parrot---squawk,? nightingale---jug.
3、?模擬獸類聲
ass---bray,? pig---grunt,? sheep---baa,? horse---neigh,? lion---roar,? cow---moo,? dog---bark,? fox---yelp,? monkey---jabber,? mouse---peep,? tiger---growl,? cat---mew,? elephant---trumpet,? wolf---bowl
4、?模擬昆蟲及其他動物聲音
bee---buzz,? mosquito---hum,? cicada---chirp,? snake---hiss,? cricket---chirp,? frog---croak
5、?模擬機(jī)器、器具聲音
click 喀嚓 (剪刀, 門, 按鈕),? clack 鏗鏘 (刀叉, 碗碟, 機(jī)器),? clink 叮叮 (金屬, 玻璃),?
clank 叮當(dāng) (鐵鏈, 刀槍),? clang 發(fā)出鏗鏘聲 (叮當(dāng)聲),? rumble 轟隆聲 (雷, 風(fēng), 炮, 車),?
toot 嘟嘟 (火車, 汽車, 輪船),? ticktack 嘀嗒 (鐘表)?
?? On the way through the mountains to school, we can see the babbling water in the brook, hear the frogs croaking, cuckoo cuckooing, birds singing, sparrows chirping in the forest. All are lovely.??? My heart is banging in my ears.? 在我耳中響著砰砰的心跳聲。
?? When Miss Martha was reaching for bread there was a great tooting, a clanging, and a fire engine came rumbling past.??? The angry husband shut the door with a bang.
?? The drunken driver drove bang into the store window.? 醉醺醺的司機(jī)開車砰地撞近商店的櫥窗。
?? “Bang! Bang!” shouted the boys in imitation of gunfire.
?? Presently Ben Rogers came in sight. He was eating an apple, giving a long melodious whoop at intervals, followed by a deep-toned [低沉的] ding-dong-dong, ding-dong-dong, for he was personating a steamboat.?
?? The ticking of the clock was the only sound that greeted him, for not a soul remained.【Hardy】
?? The metal tool clanged when it hit the wall.??? During his fever he babbled without stopping.
?? He babbled the secret out to his friends. 他向朋友們胡亂說話，泄漏了秘密。
?? He burbled on/ away (talked) for hours.?? The baby babbled (away/ on) for hours.
22、頭韻【Alliteration】
??? 它指的是在一組詞、一句話或一行詩里，有意反復(fù)使用起首字母或首聲韻相同的詞。
1、?用于詩歌
The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,? 和風(fēng)吹蕩、水花飛濺，
The furrow followed free;?????????????? 船兒破浪前進(jìn)，
We were the first that ever burst????????? 闖入那沉寂的海洋領(lǐng)域，
Into that silent sea.??????????????????? 我們是第一群人?！維. T. Coleridge】
2、?用于散文
Next to health, heart, home, happiness for mobile Americans depends upon the automobile.
對于好動的美國人來說，幸福不僅取決于健康、愛情、舒適和溫暖的家，還取決于汽車。
The world believes in the wonder worker, not the words of wisdom.? 【Richard Jefferson】
The flaks were falling thick and hard now, pouring past the window, a waterfall of mystery.
3、?用于諺語或習(xí)語
Money makes the mare go.?? A fair face may hide a foul heart.? Dumb dogs are dangerous.
Willful waste makes woeful want.? 肆意揮霍，家徒四壁。? safe and sound
tit for tat 針鋒相對?? with might and main 盡全力?? neither fish, flesh, nor fowl 不倫不類
4、?用于各類廣告??? Vitamins for Vim and Vigor? 攝取活力和精力的各種維生素
Cut Costs without Cutting Corners? 減少花費(fèi)而不必節(jié)省 [cut corners 抄近路；以經(jīng)濟(jì)的方式做事]
Sea, sun, sand, seclusion---and Spain? 海濱、陽光、沙灘、幽靜――更有西班牙風(fēng)情
5、?用于書名或報刊文章標(biāo)題
Pride and Prejudice;? Sense and Sensibility;? The Wind of War
Pei’s Pyramids Puzzle Paris (Time)? 貝氏的金字塔使巴黎困惑
Jazzy in Jeans, Sassy in Sweater (Life)? 穿上牛仔褲，活潑利索；套上羊毛衫，瀟灑俊俏
Starlight on Skyline, Galaxy of Glamour (National Geographic)
? 高樓摩天，星光燦爛；火樹銀花，瑰麗絕倫
6、?繞口令 [tongue twister]
A big black bug bit a big black bear and made the big black bear bleed blood.
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