1 ADJ [usually ADJ n] 比喻的;借喻的 If you use a word or expression in a figurative sense, you use it with a more abstract or imaginative meaning than its ordinary literal one. 比喻的;借喻的
SYN symbolical, representative, abstract, allegorical
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Europe, with Germany literally and figuratively at its centre, is still at the start of a remarkable transformation.
以德国作为地理以及比喻意义上的中心的欧洲仍处于巨大变革的初期。
2 ADJ [usually ADJ n] (艺术风格)具象的,写实的 Figurative art is a style of art in which people and things are shown in a realistic way. (艺术风格)具象的,写实的
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