Câu tiếng Anh có từ “figurative”

For the most part, the targets are observable, but they could be a little less figurative and a little more specific.

Từ trong câu: figurative, part, target, little, less, specific

«Foundations and Assessment of Education/Edition 1/Foundations Table of Contents/Chapter 8/Experts Take Sides/Peer Review Two», English Wikibooks, các tác giả Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://en.wikibooks.org/?curid=197715 (bản sửa đổi 4664538). · English Wikibooks · CC BY-SA 4.0

True there were figurative expressions in describing its “foundations, walls of precious stones, gates,” &c., but all this must represent something.

Từ trong câu: figurative, true, expression, describe, foundation, wall, precious, stone

William Pepperell, The Church Index A Book of Metropolitan Churches and Church Enterprise: Part I. Kensington. Nguồn: Project Gutenberg #41048. · Tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US (Project Gutenberg)

When he was not quite so abstract or figurative, he would say to himself, "It is sympathy, nothing more than sympathy.

Từ trong câu: figurative, quite, abstract, himself, sympathy, nothing

Richard Dowling, Miracle Gold: A Novel (Vol. 3 of 3). Nguồn: Project Gutenberg #42499. · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US (Project Gutenberg)

To refer to these interactions as “translations” is to highlight their status as figurative, inadequate to any idealised or discrete nation space.

Từ trong câu: figurative, refer, interaction, translation, highlight, status, inadequate, discrete

«Essays in Early Modern Literary Studies, 1995-2000/Translated Geographies: Spenser's "Ruins of Time"», English Wikibooks, các tác giả Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://en.wikibooks.org/?curid=481035 (bản sửa đổi 4617983). · English Wikibooks · CC BY-SA 4.0

The words, 'I am the vine, I am the door,' are literal if the expression is not figurative, 'This is my body.'

Từ trong câu: figurative, word, door, literal, expression, body

Elizabeth Schoffen, The Demands of Rome Her Own Story of Thirty-One Years as a Sister of Charity in the Order of the Sisters of Charity of Providence of the Roman Catholic Church. Nguồn: Project Gutenberg #37104. · Tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US (Project Gutenberg)

But it is not alone through figurative and poetic language that we may discover evidence of the existence of an immaterial world.

Từ trong câu: figurative, alone, language, discover, evidence, existence, world

Henry Seward Hubbard, Beyond. Nguồn: Project Gutenberg #38134. · Tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US (Project Gutenberg)

Nature is but a figurative expression for the chances of life, and the wise man faces no more chances than he needs must.

Từ trong câu: figurative, nature, expression, chance, life, wise, man, face

Francis Sydney, 1863-1943 [Editor] Marvin, Progress and History. Nguồn: Project Gutenberg #27948. · Tiếng Anh · PD-US (Project Gutenberg)

A wish for success either in life or in some particular undertaking--purely figurative of course:--'That the road may rise under you.'

Từ trong câu: figurative, wish, success, either, life, particular, undertake, purely

P. W. Joyce, English As We Speak It in Ireland. Nguồn: Project Gutenberg #34251. · Tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US (Project Gutenberg)

It was proposed to change that name to "Silveropolis," there being, in the figurative language of the Gulch, "more than one horse could draw."

Từ trong câu: figurative, propose, change, name, language, horse, draw

Bret Harte, Gabriel Conroy. Nguồn: Project Gutenberg #36336. · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US (Project Gutenberg)

His use of figurative language was easy and natural, and not stinted; but his figures were always introduced as illustrations and not as arguments.

Từ trong câu: figurative, use, language, easy, natural, figure, always, introduce

J. Lewis, 1824-1896 [Compiler] Peyton, Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton. Nguồn: Project Gutenberg #38007. · Tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US (Project Gutenberg)

The word is also used in various figurative senses, and more particularly for the "nautical log," an apparatus for ascertaining the speed of ships.

Từ trong câu: figurative, word, use, various, sense, particularly, log, speed

Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Liquid Gases" to "Logar" Volume 16, Slice 7. Nguồn: Project Gutenberg #42173. · Tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US (Project Gutenberg)

It is not to be there understood of a spiritual or figurative birth, but of a literal and actual revival of the body from corruption.

Từ trong câu: figurative, understand, spiritual, birth, literal, actual, revival, body

Various, Notes and Queries, Number 218, December 31, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.. Nguồn: Project Gutenberg #29664. · Tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US (Project Gutenberg)

To have the “seal of God” on their foreheads or the "Father's name" on their foreheads appears to be figurative language for the same thing.

Từ trong câu: figurative, seal, god, forehead, name, appear, language, thing

«Biblical Studies/New Testament Commentaries/Revelation/Chapter 7», English Wikibooks, các tác giả Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://en.wikibooks.org/?curid=224416 (bản sửa đổi 4538670). · English Wikibooks · CC BY-SA 4.0

It is literally another story of American minute men who abandoned the figurative plowshares of peaceful training camps and rushed to the scene of action.

Từ trong câu: figurative, literally, another, story, minute, man, abandon, peaceful

Various, New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol. 8, Pt. 2, No. 1, July 1918. Nguồn: Project Gutenberg #45785. · Tiếng Anh · PD-US (Project Gutenberg)

He once nearly overhauled him; and falling back, he subdued his speed, to what, in the same semi-figurative language, he styled “the puppy-trot.”

Từ trong câu: figurative, once, nearly, fall, back, speed, semi, language

William Gilmore Simms, Charlemont; Or, The Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky. Nguồn: Project Gutenberg #6012. · Nguyên văn tiếng Anh · PD-US (Project Gutenberg)

The whole description is figurative, as Plato himself implies when he speaks of a ‘fountain of fire which we compare to the network of a creel.’

Từ trong câu: figurative, whole, description, himself, imply, speak, fountain, fire

428? BCE-348? BCE Plato, Timaeus. Nguồn: Project Gutenberg #1572. · Bản dịch tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US (Project Gutenberg)

We put the question in a less figurative form,--When scepticism and idealism doubted or denied the independent existence of matter, how did Reid vindicate it?

Từ trong câu: figurative, put, question, less, form, doubt, deny, independent

Various, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, August 1847. Nguồn: Project Gutenberg #27020. · Tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US (Project Gutenberg)

Yet when he refers to the death and resurrection he always treats of them as figurative matters, pertaining to the spiritual and not to the corporeal nature.

Từ trong câu: figurative, refer, death, always, treat, matter, spiritual, nature

Richard B. Westbrook, The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets. Nguồn: Project Gutenberg #39268. · Tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US (Project Gutenberg)

Mr. Bartol's style is bold, fervid, and figurative, exhibiting a wide command of language and illustration, and at times rising into passages of singular beauty and eloquence.

Từ trong câu: figurative, mr, style, bold, exhibit, wide, command, language

Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics. Nguồn: Project Gutenberg #8903. · Tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US (Project Gutenberg)

It is a saying that an Englishman's house is his castle, but the phrase is understood to be figurative: Mr. Ormiston's house was his castle without a figure.

Từ trong câu: figurative, say, house, castle, phrase, understand, mr, figure

Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875. Nguồn: Project Gutenberg #13440. · Tiếng Anh · PD-US (Project Gutenberg)

A figurative use of a word may easily pass into a new sense: a new meaning caught up by association may become more important than all the rest.

Từ trong câu: figurative, use, word, easily, pass, new, sense, mean

428? BCE-348? BCE Plato, Cratylus. Nguồn: Project Gutenberg #1616. · Bản dịch tiếng Anh · PD-US (Project Gutenberg)

Yes, but this definition may be applied indifferently to sublimity, pathos, and the use of figurative language, since all these invest the discourse with some sort of grandeur.

Từ trong câu: figurative, yes, definition, apply, pathos, use, language, since

active 1st century Longinus, On the Sublime. Nguồn: Project Gutenberg #17957. · Bản dịch tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US (Project Gutenberg)

His first encounter with the troops of Shah Zaman was a triumph; and now, says the figurative Lal, the stars of the descendants of the Sarfraz began to shine.

Từ trong câu: figurative, first, encounter, troop, triumph, now, star, begin

Various, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846. Nguồn: Project Gutenberg #37797. · Tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US (Project Gutenberg)

The oft-quoted expression of Alred, that "they broke through the English ranks as if they had been spiders' webs," must be regarded as largely figurative, for two reasons.

Từ trong câu: figurative, quote, expression, break, rank, spider, web, regard

Edward Lamplough, Yorkshire Battles. Nguồn: Project Gutenberg #44852. · Tiếng Anh · en-GB · PD-US (Project Gutenberg)

They are full of archaic and figurative expressions, many of which are unintelligible to the common people, and some of which even the shamans themselves are now unable to explain.

Từ trong câu: figurative, full, expression, many, unintelligible, common, people, even

John Wesley, 1834-1902 [Editor] Powell, Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891. Nguồn: Project Gutenberg #26568. · Tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US (Project Gutenberg)

Having thus taken the bull by the horns in a literal as well as figurative sense, the lad began gradually to develop into that terrible embodiment of unrest--a boy.

Từ trong câu: figurative, thus, take, bull, horn, literal, well, sense

John Algernon Owens, Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier. Nguồn: Project Gutenberg #28152. · Tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US (Project Gutenberg)

The use of figurative language is also an aid to clearness and to force.

Từ trong câu: clearness, figurative, use, language, aid, force

George K. Pattee, Practical Argumentation. Nguồn: Project Gutenberg #6473. · Tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US (Project Gutenberg)

Porter was a figurative painter at a time when abstraction was more popular.

Từ trong câu: abstraction, figurative, painter, time, popular

«Fairfield Porter», Simple English Wikipedia, các tác giả Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://simple.wikipedia.org/?curid=994013 (bản sửa đổi 10467473). · Simple English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

Most of his paintings are figurative, allowing viewers to connect with representational art.

Từ trong câu: viewer, figurative, paint, allow, connect, art

«Oinam Dilip», Simple English Wikipedia, các tác giả Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://simple.wikipedia.org/?curid=1233060 (bản sửa đổi 10612869). · Simple English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

The quality of being brilliant; splendor; glitter; great brighness, whether in a literal or figurative sense.

Từ trong câu: literal, figurative, quality, brilliant, great, whether, sense

Noah Webster, Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages). Nguồn: Project Gutenberg #248. · Tiếng Anh · en-US · PD-US (Project Gutenberg)