2、Simile1.They are like the musketeers of Dumas … their thoughts and feelings.2.The Elizabethans blew on it as on a dandelion…ends of the earth.3.…likecloudsofflies.4.Everythingisdone…likeinvertedcapitalLs…5.And really it was like watching a …armed men,flowing peacefully up the road,wh
3、ile the great white birds drifted over them in the opposite direction,glittering like scraps of paper.6.Mybrainwasaspowerfulasadynamo,aspreciseasachemist’sscales,aspenetratingasascalpel.7.Sameage,…butdumbasanox.8.Peterlay…coathuddledlikeagreathairy…9.Itwaslikediggingatunnel.10.Ileapedtomyfeet,be
5、metaphor1.The fact that their marriages may be on the rocks,or
6、 that their love affairs have been broken or even that they got out of bed on the wrong side is simply not a concern.2.…did not delve intoeach other’s lives or the recesses of their thoughts and feeling.3.It was on such … suddenly the alchemy of conversation … was a focus.4.Theglowoftheconversat
7、ionburstintoflames.5.WehadtraveledinfiveminutestoAustralia.6.Theconversationwasonwings.7.Aswelisten…tothinkourselvesbackintotheshoesoftheSaxonpeasant.8.Ihaveanunendingloveaffairwithdictionaries…ofcommonsense.9.Even with the most educated and the most literate,the King’s English slips and slides
8、in conversation.10.When E.M.Forster writes of -the sinister corridor of our age,we sit up at the vividness of the phrase,the force and even terror in the image.11.Theyriseoutoftheearth,theysweatandstarveforafewyears,…aregone.12.Downthecentre…alittleriverofurine.13.…in the past,…by riding the bac
9、k of the tiger ended up inside.14.Butthispeacefulrevolutionofhopecannotbecomethepreyofhostilepowers.15.Andleteveryotherpowerknowthatthishemisphereintendstoremainthemasterofitsownhouse.16.…werenewourpledgeofsupport:topreventi
