当我们用图形或图画来清楚表达我们自己的思想或者教导一些东西时，这就是比喻性语言。
Figurative language is when we use figures or pictures to express ourselves clearly or to teach something.
语言的比喻性用法是构建词义的重要途径，但简单的字面义——比喻义的划分会使比喻性语言的理解过于笼统。
Figurative use of language is an important means to structure word meanings, but the simple distinction between literal-figurative meanings is rather general in understanding figurative USES.
广义的比喻泛指语言具有诗学理据的运用，用形式主义文论的术语来说，就是具有陌生化特点的文学性。
Metaphor, in its broad sense, refers to the use of language which is poetically motivated, that is, literariness featured by defamiliarization in formalist terms.
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