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metaphor
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Readings

On readingユ
Kun readingたと.える、さと.す

Meanings

  1. metaphorRtK
    「怒ると彼はトラになる」というのは隠喩の例である。"He's a tiger when he's angry" is an example of metaphor.tatoeba
    その比喩的意味はもはや使われていない。The figurative meaning is no longer in current use.tatoeba
  2. compare
  1. example
  2. simile
  3. allegory
  4. fable

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この表現は日本語にはない英語の比喩表現として、私は大変気に入っています。
This expression has really caught my fancy, as a type of English metaphorical expression not in Japanese.tatoeba

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

隠喩的でもあるが、アリストテレスはこれを「自然が作る」という。
いんゆてきでもあるが、ありすとてれすはこれを「しぜんがつくる」という。Though metaphorical, Aristotle calls this 'what nature makes.'

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

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