英语中的比喻句型
句型一本体（主语）+谓语(介词like;连词as)+喻体/Be likened to + 喻体 1、 The Chinese people stood up like a giant.
中国人民像巨人一样站起来了。
2、 Be warm to comrades like the spring,be
enthusiastic in work like the summer,treat individualism like the autumn wind
sweeping away the withered leaves,and be merciless to the enemy like the fierce winter.(Lei Feng)
对待同志要像春天般温暖，…… 3、 Use a book as a bee does a flower.
像蜜蜂利用花一样，去利用书籍吧。
4、 The childhood shows the man, as morning
shows the day.(J Milton)
一个人的童年，就好比一天的早晨。 5、 His heart shivered as a ship shivers at the
mountainous crash of the waters.(Bennetti)
他的心颤动了，好像一艘船在排山倒海的波涛中颠簸。
句型二 本体（主语）+be+as+形容词+as+喻体 1、 Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as
food to the body.(Cicero)
学习对于头脑，如同食物对于身体一样不可缺少。
2、 The muscles of his brawny arms are as
strong as iron bands.(Longfellow)
他强壮手臂上的肌肉像铁铸的带条。
3、 As good almost kill a man, as kill a good
book.(J Milton)
毁掉一本书，不啻杀死一个人。 4、 Death may be as heavy as Taishan or as
light as a feather.(Szuma Chian)
死或重如泰山，或轻如鸿毛。
句型三名词A…to+ 名词B+as/what+名词C…to+名词D 1、 Reading is to the mind what exercise is to
the body.(Addison)
读书对于思想，好像运动对于身体一样。 2、 Intellect is to the mind what sight is to the body.(Berkeley)
智力对于思想，犹如视力对于身体一样。 3、 Parks are to the city as(=what)lungs are to the body.
公园对于都市正如肺对于人的身体。
4、 An individual is to the revolutionar as a
screw is to a machine.(Leifeng)
一个人的作用，对于革命事业来说，就如一架机器上的一颗螺丝钉。
句型四 just as/what+喻体，so/that+本体 1、 As fire tries gold,so does adversity try
virture.
如同火实验金，逆境实验人的品德。 2、 Just as we sweep our rooms,so we should
sweep backward ideas from our minds.
正像打扫房屋一样，我们也要扫除我们
头脑中落后的东西。 3、 What salt is to food,that wit and humour are
to conversation and literature.
隽语和幽默对于会话和文学，恰如盐对于食物一样。
4、 What blood vessel is to a man’s body,that
railway is to transportation.
铁路对于运输，好比血脉对于人的身体一样。
句型五…no more/less +本体+than+喻体；not +本体+any more than+喻体 1、 The greatness of a people is no more
determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.(V.Hugo)
一个民族的伟大不决定人口多少，正如一个人的伟大不决定于他的身长一样。 2、 Nations are not to be judged by their size
any more than individuals.
国家正如一个人一样，不能以身材大小判断。
3、 He can no more swim than I can fly.