在比喻的意义上,他把她关在牢里了.He imprisoned her, in a figurative sense.这里该字是在比喻的意义上使用的.Here the word is used in a figurative sense.它的基本点是本喻体的相关性,而比喻的基本点是本喻体的相似点.The key point is that metonymy thing which has close relationship thing....

“比喻的”的英语可以翻译为：figurative，parabolic，parabolical ...