metonym ['metənim]

metonym的基本解释

n.

[修辞]换喻(metonymy)中所使用的词或短语

与metonym相关的网络例句 [注：此内容来源于网络，仅供参考]

Plastic is a metonym for credit card.

"plastic"是指代信用卡的转喻词。

Main Street is the metonym for a generic street name of the primary retail street of a village, town, or small city in many parts of the world.

"Main Street"是世界许多地方的村镇或小城市主要零售街道的一个通用称呼，它通常是商店和零售商聚集的商业中心区，常指零售和社交的区域。

The term originally referred to the region's large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers, but eventually came to refer to all the high-tech businesses in the area; it is now generally used as a metonym for the high-tech sector.

这个词最初提到该地区的大量的硅芯片上的创新者和制造商，但最终来指所有高科技企业在该地区；现在人们普遍用作metonym的高科技产业。

Metonym : The substitution of one term for another with which it is commonly associated or closely related.

一般来说，不可数名词用动词单数，可数名词复数用动词复数。

The fact that it was the source of the first tea imported to Britain meant that the name became, in the 17th century, a metonym for tea itself, and is thus used by Pope (in "The Rape of the Lock") and Byron (in "Don Juan").

事实上，这里出产了首批出口至英国的茶叶，意味着武夷山在17世纪时成为了茶叶的代名词，蒲柏和拜伦曾经用过这一称谓。

与metonym相关的网络解释 [注：此内容来源于网络，仅供参考]

metonym：换喻词

metis 混血儿 | metonym 换喻词 | metonymy 转喻

metonym：换喻

maxim 格言,箴言 | metonym 换喻 | metonymy 喻