late 15c., from Middle French metaphore (Old French metafore, 13c.), and directly from Latin metaphora, from Greek metaphora "a transfer," especially of the sense of one word to a different word, literally "a carrying over," from metapherein "transfer, carry over; change, alter; to use a word in a strange sense," from meta- "over, across" (see meta-) + pherein "to carry, bear" (see infer).
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1. Despite the mixed metaphor ,there is some truth in this judgement.
は混用の比喩があるにもかかわらず、この判断は一理ある。
2.a game of football used as a metaphor for the competitive struggle of life
生活の中の激しい闘争を指すサッカーの試合
3.'This vale of tears 'is a metaphor for the human condition.
「涙の渓谷」は浮世の比喩的な言い方だ。
4.Using metaphor ,we say that computers have senses and a memory.
比べれば、コンピュータには感覚と記憶力があると言える。
5.In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.