暗喻也叫隐喻，是简缩了的明喻，但不用比喻词like或as作对比，是将某一事物的名称用于另一事物，通过比较形成，从而更生动、更深刻地说明事理，增强语言的表现力。例如：她是个天使。(She is an angel.)是暗喻；而她像天使般天真无邪。(She is as innocent as an angel.)是明喻。
一、好句欣赏
1．Time is money.
时间就是金钱。
2．She's going through a roller coaster of emotions.
她正在经历一场情绪的大起大落。
3．Spending too much time with him is worse than swimming in a sea of sharks.
花太多时间和他在一起，要比在有鲨鱼的海里游泳更糟糕。
4．Her hair was a flowing golden river streaming down her shoulders.
她的头发像一条流动着的金色河流，顺着她的肩膀披垂下来。
5．Kathy arrived at the grocery store with an army of children.
凯西带着一大群孩子来到了杂货店。
6．Today's lecture gave me a lot of food for thought.
今天的讲座给了我很多值得思考的东西。
