1·But there was also something comic in her chosen image for man’s transience—the indestructible trope of the doomed mayfly.
但是对于她遴选情人短暂的化身方面，她本人也存在着滑稽的成分——采用注定短命的浮游做比喻。
2·The trope of sight is obviously extremely important here.
对视力的比喻在这里非常的重要。
3·He was acting on a common trope in literature: the collapse of our technology and a return to old ways.
在文学中，他已经成为一个常见的比喻：技术的崩溃，以及古老方式的回归。
4·The cougar trope started out as a joke about desperate older women. Now it’s gone mainstream, even in Hollywood, home to the 50-something producer with a starlet on his arm.
美洲豹曾被用来比喻绝望的老女人，现在，这已经成为主流，甚至在好莱坞，五十多岁的导演手臂上都会有个图案。
5·So we've already seen the trope of the house.
我们已经看过关于房子的比喻。
1·A metaphor is a trope or figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common.
暗喻是将两种有共同点的不同事物进行隐晦比较的修辞手法。
2·Metaphor is not only a means of trope but also a cognitive approach.
隐喻不仅是一种修辞手段，更是人类的一种认知方式。
3·It also suggests that metaphor is of significance both for understanding this traditional trope for its further study.
并指出对隐喻的研究不仅可以更好地理解这一传统的修辞现象，而且有助于隐喻学的深层次研究。