比喻

• 拼音: bǐ yù
• 汉字拆解: 比 = 比 (compare — two figures side by side); 喻 = 口 + 俞 (mouth + to convey — to explain through analogy)

含义

A metaphor or simile; to compare one thing to another in order to explain or illustrate. A fundamental figure of speech.

Used across literature, rhetoric, education, and everyday speech to make abstract concepts concrete. In Chinese literary tradition, 比喻 encompasses both simile (明喻) and metaphor (暗喻) as broad categories of analogical comparison.

例句

1. 他用蜡烛比喻教师，燃烧自己照亮他人，令人深受感动。
2. 这首诗运用了大量比喻手法，将失落的情感描绘得淋漓尽致。
3. 老师借助生动的比喻，让学生迅速理解了抽象的物理概念。

用法指南

语境: literature, education, rhetoric, everyday speech

语气: neutral

正确说法

• 演讲者用沙漠中的绿洲来比喻希望，使台下听众产生了强烈的情感共鸣。(The speaker used an oasis in the desert as a metaphor for hope, evoking a strong emotional response from the audience.)
• 教材中的比喻句让枯燥的语法规则变得生动易记。(Metaphorical sentences in the textbook made dry grammar rules vivid and easy to remember.)

错误说法

• 用比喻来形容数字 — 比喻 works for qualitative comparisons; for quantitative description use 形容 or 描述 instead

起源与历史

比 (compare/contrast) + 喻 (explain/illustrate by analogy)

文化背景

世代: All ages

社会背景: Universal