figurative

adj.

1. 比喻的
   used in a way that is different from the usual meaning, in order to create a particular mental picture. For example, ‘He exploded with rage’ shows a figurative use of the verb ‘explode’.
2. 形象的
   showing people, animals and objects as they really look
   1. a figurative artist
      形象艺术家

1. ADJ 比喻的;借喻的
   If you use a word or expression in a figurative sense, you use it with a more abstract or imaginative meaning than its ordinary literal one.
   1. ...an event that will change your route — 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
2. ADJ (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.
   1. 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。

1. When I suggested a while back that English speakers avoid figurative language and phrasal verbs such as put out, some readers took issue with me.
   不久前我建议说英语的人避免使用比喻和putout等动词短语时，一些读者就与我争论了。
2. I'm using the word in its figurative sense, of course.
   当然，我用的是这个词的比喻意义。
3. I tend to prefer figurative painting to abstract art.
   我倾向于爱好印象派绘画，而不喜欢抽象艺术。
4. Music, Folklore, and Figurative Imagery: The Heritage of Black Literary Tradition in Invisible Man
   音乐、民俗和比喻意象：《看不见的人》中的黑人文学传统
5. The works minimize the features of traditional Chinese porcelain wares and figurative profiles and formalizes them into abstract forms.
   作品在造型上将器物与人的外部形状再度形式化，以不断去除的方法突出“形”和“影”的特征。
6. English poetry; figurative language; rhythm; interactive approach;
   英语诗歌；修辞语言；格律；互动法；
7. If not, you are dealing with figurative language.
   如果不合适，那就它们是具比喻性语言。
8. The word here is used in its figurative sense.
   此词在这儿取的是它的比喻意义。
9. 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。
10. And this time can pass through the abstract, from his figurative art of step by step exploration.
    而这种能穿越时间的抽象，源于他对具像艺术一步步的探索。
11. It is figurative language that appeals to the imagination of the hearers or readers.
    之所以采用比喻的修辞语言是为了把读者和听众想象力吸引过来。
12. Compared with a simile, a metaphor is less literal and more figurative.
    同明喻相比，暗喻不那么书面化而且更加形象化。
13. This article probes into the cultural differences between English and Chinese languages, by way of a comparative and contrastive study on the figurative images of animal idioms in English and Chinese languages.
    摘要本文通过对英汉两种语言中的动物习语比喻形象的对比研究，探讨英汉两种语言所负载的文化信息差异。
14. The architecture of the bridge stubbornly avoids any figurative reference, any metaphor: it is what it does.
    桥为建筑元素在此固执地避免任何形象化的参考、任何虚伪的比喻：它就是它。
15. Otherwise their literal or figurative licences to operate will be in jeopardy.
    否则，这些企业的营业执照和公众形象都将岌岌可危。
16. He imprisoned her, in a figurative sense.
    在比喻的意义上，他把她关在牢里了。
17. As a result, Deng Jianjin's painting style got subtle changes turning the figurative into symbolism.
    结果邓箭今的描绘风格发生了微妙的变化，从具像的表现有节制地转向象征主义；
18. By demonstrating the lexical functions in the figurative speech with animal names, the article presents the rhetoric function of animal names in simile and metaphor.
    本文从动物比喻的词汇功能出发，通过实例对动物名称在明喻和暗喻中的修辞功能作一浅显分析，指明它与英语文化和思维方式密不可分。
19. What is the function of the figurative use of language?
    语言的比喻用法的功能是什么？
20. Figurative she felt she was being dragged into a whirlpool of emotion.
    她觉得自己被卷入了感情的旋涡。
21. A figural design; the figurative art of the humanistic tradition-Herbert Read.
    象征性的图案；人文主义传统象征艺术-何伯特·鲁德。
22. In the same figurative sense I received my individual wings, and what gave me them was my bicycle.
    同样地，我得到了属于我自己的翅膀，这就是我的自行车。
23. Figurative art has evolved through Impressionism and Fauvism to arrive to at what we call Abstract art.
    具象艺术已经经过印象派和野兽派的发展阶段，达到我们所称的抽象艺术。
24. Substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another.
    用一种比喻意义代替另一种的换喻。
25. ` He exploded with rage 'shows a figurative use of the verb` to explode'.
    ‘他肺都气炸了，’一句中的‘炸’字是比喻用法。
26. It is of great importance for English teaching to analyze the characteristics of English and Chinese figurative expressions and clarify their respective cultural connotations.
    分析和归纳英汉动物比喻词的异同点并弄清它们各自的文化内涵对外语教学有着十分重要的意义。
27. The meaning of differentiated graph coincides with the original sense and also with the extended meaning or figurative sense.
    分化字的意义可以与原字意义重合，也可以是引申义或假借义。
28. A Comparison Between Chinese biyu and English Metaphor; substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another.
    Metaphor和比喻：英汉比较研究用一种比喻意义代替另一种的换喻。
29. As a result, these two paintings represent his successful artistic transformation in the arena of abstract figurative.
    因此，这两个作品代表了他在艺术舞台上从现实主义成功转向抽象主义的最佳例子。