修辞方法Rhetorical Devices (2)
Personification
It is to treat a thing or an idea as if it were human or had human qualities.
1. Youth is hot and bold; Age is weak and cold. Youth is wild, and Age is tame. -----William Shakespeare
2. The match will soon be over and defeat is staring us in the face.
3. This time fate was smiling to him.
4. Thunder roared and a pouring rain started.
5. Dusk came stealthily.
6. The storm was raging and angry a was continuously tossing their boat.
7. The sun kisd the green fields.
8. The thirsty dert drank up the water.
9. The youth were singing, laughing and playing the music instruments.
10. The trees and flowers around them danced heartily as if touchedroots by merry mood.
11. The night, like some great loving mother, gently lays her hand at our fevered head.
12. Ill-gotten wealth is but an evil friend.
13. The leaves are trembling in the cold wind.
14. The storm was so angry that it wanted to destroy everything in the cold wind.
15. The thirsty soil drank in the rain.
1. The waves were dimpling in the sunshine. (泛起笑窝)
2. The green mountains were dancing, and the rivers and lakes smiling.
3. The ro blushes in the morning breeze.
4. Time will tell.
5. On the table lay some dog-eared books.
6. The wind sighed in the tree tops.
7. The moon is pardonriding in the sky.
8. The lamb nodded as I came home.
9. Pride goes before a fall.
10. Success, health, and happiness are beckoning to you.
11. Poetry is the queen of arts.
12. Truth never grows old.
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Opposite to personification, it is to treat a human as an object, like an animal, a plant, an inanimate thing, or an abstract idea.
1. “A lucky dog you are!” exclaimed Jim.
2. Terribly hungry, the man wolfed down all the cakes.
3. Children are flowers of our country.
4. She found in him model and admiration.
5. His spoilt children are rotten goods that will never prosper.
6. Like a lion he rushed to meet his foe.
7. He slept like a dog.
8. The prostitutes are nothing but paper toys, played, ruined, torn, and thrown into the garbage can.
9. She is shedding yale universitycrocodile tears.
10. Children are always eager to ape others.
11. He is a bookworm.
Euphemism
It is the substitution of a mild or vague expression for a harsh or unpleasant one, for example:
to die to pass away, to leave us, one’s heart has stopped beating, to fall asleep
old people nior citizens, gray hair
mad emotionally disturbed
madhou mental hospital
whore working girl/call girl/business girl/pavement princess
dustman sanitation worker
prostitutes entertainer
lavatory bathroom, men’s/women’s room, dressing room, restroom, water clot
Invasion, raid military action
Driving inhabitants away or controlling them pacification
concentration camps strategic hamlets
graveyard Memorial park; memory park
First Class (飞机上的豪华舱) Deluxe class/ Premium Class
Second Class The First Class
Third Class Business Class/Economic Class/Tourist Class
make love with/ have x with dream teamgo to bed with/sleep with
to be pregnant to be expecting
condhand store resale store
garbage collector sanitation engineer
maid/houkeeper domestic help/day-help/live-in help
1. He is a bit slow for his age. (他反应较慢)
2. He/She is a stout/plump man/woman.
3. I have to pay a call./ I’d like to be excud./ I have to retire for a moment./ where is the restroom?/ may I wash hands?
health the world4. His father pasd away last week and is going to be laid to rest next Sunday.
5. “What do you think of the roast duck?” “Not bad.”
6. Your grammar is not particularly good.
7. They parted after two years of marriage.horizontal
8. Sometimes I think she sticks too much to her principles.
9. I am afraid he has misreprentedaip the facts.
10. He ud poor judgment wherever he went.
宁波英语翻译11. He worked and worked until he breathed his last.
12. They laid down their lives for their country.
13. And, in being low water, he went out with the tide.
It is obvious that tho euphemisms ud by the ordinary people are meant to soften harsh reality, but tho ud by politicians may aim at deceiving the public. krazy
