修辞
1. The air of morning was so clear that the snow still crowning the Eighteen Peaks burned with white-gold fire across the miles of sunlit air, under the dark blue of sky. 中国邮政网络培训学院Metaphor
2. My brother, Roderick,..., sat on the car rug in the sunshine and examined a brown spruce cone, meticulously turning it round and round in his small and curious hands. 背景头像Transferred epithet
3. At night the lake was like black glass with a streak of amber which was the path of the moon. Simile metaphor
4. Characteristically, the city swallows up the United Nations and refus to take it riously, regarding it as an unworkable mixture of the idealistic, the impractical, and the hypocritical.
富含钙的食物Personification
5. As a child, I’d ridden my bike past it two thousand times and always felt a timy bit unnerved.
hyperbole
6. While sitcoms cloned and canned in Hollywood, and the Johnny Carson show live, pre-empt the airwaves form California. Alliteration metaphor
7. The defeated are not hidden away somewhere el on the wrong side of town. Euphemism
8. In this endeavor to wed the vision of the Old World with that of the New, it is the writer, not the statesman, who is our strongest arm. metaphor
9. Some cancer in their character has eaten away their Englishness. metaphor
10. As it is they are like a hippopotamus blundering in and out of a pets’ tea party. 百代之过客 simile
11. Omelas sounds in my words like a city in a fairy tale, long ago and far away, once upon a time. simile
12. Inside, I could have fit every stitch of clothing I owned, three times over.
13. Englishness cannot be fed with the east wind of a narrow rationality, the latest figures of profit and loss, a constant appeal to lf-interest. 武则天无字碑metaphor
14. To blame the people who lent the money for the real estate boom is like blaming the crack dealers for creating addicts. 佛相Simile
15. Plaintive, and yet with a quality of chilling mockery, tho voices belonged to a world parated by aeons from our neat world of summer cottages and the lighted lamps of home.
水治理metonymy相映生辉
16. “So what el is new?” irony
17. I spent the first few days in talking non-stop with my mother, as we exchanged all the news that somehow had not found its way into letters. personification
18. It is as though he suddenly came out of a dark tunnel and found himlf beneath the open sky.
19. He needs sustenance for his journey and the best models he can find. simile
20. The result is a forest of For Sale signs and an army of workers commuting from great distances.
21. A writer, when he has made his first breakthrough, has simply won a crucial skirmish in a dangerous, unending and unpredictable battle. metaphor
22. The crowds along the racecour are like a field of grass and flowers in the wind. simile
23. As a child, I’d ridden my bike past it two thousand times and always felt a timy bit unnerved. hyperbole
24. Tin Pan Alley has moved to Nashville and Hollywood. metonymy
25. I spent the first few days in talking non-stop with my mother, as we exchanged all the news that somehow had not found its way into letters. personification
26. The damn bone’s flared up again. Synecdoche
27. A man struggling to hold on to the illusion that he is upper middle class has become like a character in a cartoon earthquake: he looks down and es his feet being dragged ever farther apart by a quickly widdening fissure. simile
28. Yes, Englishness is still with us . But it needs reinforcement, extra nourishment, especially now when our public life ems ready to starve it. metaphor
29. A trek up the Himalayan staircas quickly became the subject of an elaborate cost-benefit analysis. metaphor
30. He probably has been a “regular fellow” for much of his adult life, and it is not easy for him to step out of that lukewarm bath. metaphor
