翻译不是简单的字面直译，需要的是强大转化和反述能力，所以说考生要认真的复习备考。一般常见修辞有19种，下面是查字典考研为大家进对此进行的解读。
1.Simile 明喻
明喻是将具有共性的不同事物作对比.这种共性存在于人们的心里,而不是事物的自然属性。
标志词常用 like, as, seem, as if, as though, similar to, such as等.。
例如:
1）He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen tohear him crow.
2）I wandered lonely as a cloud.
3）Einstein only had a blanket on, as if he had justwalked out of a fairy tale.
2.Metaphor 隐喻,暗喻
隐喻是简缩了的明喻,是将某一事物的名称用于另一事物,通过比较形成。
例如:
1）Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
2）Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and somefew to be chewed and digested.
3.Metonymy 借喻,转喻
借喻不直接说出所要说的事物,而使用另一个与之相关的事物名称。
I.以容器代替内容,例如:
1）The kettle boils. 水开了。
2）The room sat silent. 全屋人安静地坐着。
II.以资料.工具代替事物的名称,例如:
Lend me your ears, please. 请听我说。
III.以作者代替作品,例如:
a complete Shakespeare 莎士比亚全集
VI.以具体事物代替抽象概念,例如:
I had the muscle, and they made money out of it. 我有力气,他们就用我的力气赚钱。
4.Synecdoche 提喻
提喻用部分代替全体,或用全体代替部分,或特殊代替一般。
例如:
1）There are about 100 hands working in his factory.(部分代整体)
他的厂里约有100名工人。
2）He is the Newtonof this century.(特殊代一般)
他是本世纪的牛顿。
3）The fox goes very well with your cap.(整体代部分)
这狐皮围脖与你的帽子很相配。