一、引言在英语翻译实践中,隐喻的辨识与理解是重点与难点之一。隐喻是语言中普遍存在的现象,对其进行快速准确的辨识与理解有着重要的意义。隐喻作为一种修辞格的研究可以追溯到古希腊的亚里士多德。现在对隐喻的研究已经不仅仅限于修辞学,而是扩展到哲学、语言学、符号学、语 I. Introduction In the practice of English translation, identification and understanding of metaphor is one of the key and difficult. Metaphor is a ubiquitous phenomenon in language and has important meanings for its rapid and accurate identification and understanding. Metaphor as a figure of speech can be traced back to Aristotle of ancient Greece. Now the study of metaphor has not only limited to rhetoric, but extended to philosophy, linguistics, semiotics, language