Simile 明喻：常用as或like等词把具有共同特征的两种不同事物连接起来进行比较。

1.The children went from adult to adult like buckets in a fire brigade.（1.11）

2.The wind sounded like the roar of a train passing a few yards away. （1.13）

3.Telephone poles and 20-inch-thick pines cracked like guns as the winds snapped them.（1.19）

4.Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees, and blown down power lines coiled like black spaghetti

over the roads.（1.28）

5.Gone was the fierce fervour of the days when Bryan had swept the political arena like a prairie fire.

6.Resolutely he strode to the stand, carrying a palm fan like a sword to repel his enemies.

7.Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn's idyllic cruise through eternal

boyhood and Tom Sawyer's endless summer of freedom and adventure.

8.把马克吐温比喻成其作品主人公哈克和汤姆的父亲。

9.All would resurface in his books, together with the colorful language that he soaked up with a memory

that seemed phonographic。将马克吐温的记忆比作留声机，说明其记忆力超常。

10.I am the way my daughter would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked

barley pancake. 将白皙光滑的皮肤比成大麦饼，暗指迪依比喜欢母亲的皮肤。

11.Impressed with her they worshiped the well-turned phrase, the cute shape, the scalding humor that

erupted like bubbles in lye. 将迪依尖酸刻薄的幽默比成碱水里的气泡。暗指他的幽默可能会伤人。

12.Hair is all over his head a foot long and hanging from his chin like a kinky mule tail.

13.将迪依男友的头发比成一条扭结的骡子尾巴

14.It stands straight up like the wool on a sheep. 将迪依的头发比成羊毛

15.Maggie's hand is as limp as a fish, and probably as cold, despite the sweat, and she keeps trying to pull

it back. 将迪依的手比成一条冰冷无力的鱼，说明迪依当时很紧张。

16.Maggie's brain is like an elephant's,

17.将迪依的大脑比成大象的大脑，大象的记忆力好，讽刺迪依什么都能记住。

18.The great billowing clouds that sail upon it are th shadows that move upon the grain like water, dividing

light. 把翻腾的云在作物上投下的阴影比作水，描绘出光线忽明忽暗

19.And the land was like iron. 把干涸的大地比作铁板一样坚硬。

20.Her long,black hair,always drawn and braided in the day,lay upon her shoulders and against her breasts

like a shawl. 把祖母披散在肩膀上的浓密、黝黑的长发比喻成一块披肩垂在胸前。

21.My line of vision was such that the creature fiiled the moon like a fossil.

把蟋蟀比作化石，表现蟋蟀栖在栏杆上一动不动的景象。

19.A warm wind rose up and purled like the longing within me. 把温暖的风比作内心涌动的渴望。Metaphor 暗喻，同明喻类似，但暗喻的比较不通过比喻词as或like进行。暗喻的运用可以起到化抽象为具体。

1."We can batten down and ride it out," he said. "If we see signs of danger, we can get out before dark."

（1.4）

2.Strips of clothing festooned the standing trees, and blown down power lines coiled like black spaghetti

over the roads.（1.28）

3.Camille, meanwhile, had raked its way northward across Mississippi, dropping more than 28 inches of

rain into West Virginia and southern Virginia, causing rampaging floods, huge mountain slides and 111 additional deaths before breaking up over the Atlantic Ocean.（1.32）

4.And secondly, because I had a lump in my throat and a lot of sad thoughts on my mind that had little to

do with anything a Nippon railways official might say.（2.1）

5.The usher bowed deeply and heaved a long, almost musical sigh, when I showed him the invitation

which the mayor had sent me in response to my request for an interview.（2.5）

6.no one, least of all I, anticipated that my case would snowball into one of the most famous trials in U. S.

history

7.By the time the trial began on July 10, our town of 1 500 people had taken on a circus atmosphere.

8.The street around the three-storey red brick law court sprouted with rickety stands selling hot dogs