The passage employs a figure of speech called parallelism.

I just said that it was like tank, a figure of speech.

听着,我说笑死了只是一种夸张的说法.

A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared.

一种修辞手法,把两种基本不相像的东西进行比较.

The most important function figure of speech is expression.

修辞格最重要的功能是表达功能.

Irony is an often used figure of speech.

摘要反语是一种常用的修辞格.

A figure of speech a part is used for the whole.

一种以局部代表整体的修辞方法.

Bourgeois Socialism attains adequate expression , when , and only when, it becomes a mere figure of speech.

资产阶级的社会主义只有在它变成纯粹的演说辞令的时候, 才获得自己的适当的表现.

The fable is figure of speech, including noumenon and implication. Zhuangzi's fables are no ( exception ).

从修辞学的角度看,寓言乃是比喻, 有其本体和喻体, 《 庄子 》寓言自不能外.

Of course this is just a figure of speech.

当然,这不过是一种形象化的说法.

Of course I'm not. It was just a figure of speech.

我当然不是，这不过是打个比方。

It was just a figure of speech!

这只是一种比喻说法!

Today, High Mountain and Running Water a figure of speech about the bosom friends.

今天, 人们用“高山流水”来比喻知心朋友.

Quantitative hyperbole is common figure of speech in both Chinese and English.

数量夸张是汉语和英语所共有的修辞格.

His disciples said, " Now are plainly, and not in any figure of speech. "

他的门徒便说: " 看,现在你明明地讲论, 不用什么比喻了.

What's the figure of speech of the sentence?

这句话用了什么修辞格?

This figure of speech is plain and pungent.

这篇文章清晰而中肯.

I figure on being in New York in January.

我计画一月份在纽约.

You can figure on losing about a fifth of your force in counter offensives.

反击战的兵力消耗须以不超过五分之一为度.

We figure on your coming early to help us.

我们指望你们会早些来帮助我们.

What do you figure on if we can't get through the pass?

假如山口过不去,依你看该怎么办好 呢 ?

She laid the fragile figure on the table at once.

她立即把弱不禁风的小人放到桌上.