figurative
🇬🇧/ˈfɪɡərətɪv/ 🇺🇸/ˈfɪɡjərətɪv/📚 12343 1四级六级托福GREsatIf you use a word or expression in a figurative sense, you use it with a more abstract or imaginative meaning than its ordinary literal one. 比喻的
adjective [原级]比喻的；形象的；有文采的，用修辞手段的
His career spanned some 50 years and encompassed both abstract and figurative painting.
他的艺术生涯跨越了大约五十个年头，抽象和形象油画两者都有所造诣。
来自figure(n. 外形； 象征)
单词造句:
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- ...an event that will change your route – in both the literal and figurative sense. …一件将改变你路线的大事–既在原义上也在喻义上。
- I saw that she was, both literally and figuratively, up against a wall. 我都看到她，既是事实上也是比喻地，面临一道墙。
- The themes can be figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, and the techniques can be divided into figurative painting and freehand painting. 题材可分人物、山水、花鸟等，技法可分具象和写意。
- I'm not being figurative or clever here. 我在这里并不是纸上谈兵或者自作聪明。