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Note that with the AS...AS pattern, the first AS is sometimes suppressed, for example:

• • His skin was cold as ice.

The above patterns of simile are the most common, but there are others made with adverbs or words such as than and as if, for example:

• • He ran as fast as the wind.

  • He is larger than life.

  • They ran as if for their lives.

Similes can include other figures of speech. For example, "He ran like greased lightning" is a simile that includes hyperbole (greased lightning).

Similes often make use of irony or sarcasm. In such cases they may even mean the opposite of the adjective used. Look at these examples:

• • His explanation was as clear as mud. (not clear at all since mud is opaque)

  • The film was about as interesting as watching a copy of Windows download. (long and boring)

  • Watching the show was like watching paint dry. (very boring)

Similes are often found (and they sometimes originate) in poetry and other literature. Here are a few examples:

• • A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle - Irina Dunn

  • Dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds afresh - Wilfred Owen

  • Death has many times invited me: it was like the salt invisible in the waves - Pablo Neruda

  • Guiltless forever, like a tree - Robert Browning

  • Happy as pigs in mud - David Eddings

  • How like the winter hath my absence been - William Shakespeare

  • As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  • Jubilant as a flag unfurled - Dorothy Parker

  • So are you to my thoughts as food to life - William Shakespeare

  • Yellow butterflies flickered along the shade like flecks of sun - William Faulkner

Popular songs, too, make use of simile:

• • A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle - U2

  • Cheaper than a hot dog with no mustard - Beastie Boys

  • I must do what's right, as sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti - Toto

  • It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a dog - The Beatles

  • Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan

  • Like a bat outta [out of] hell - Meat Loaf

  • My heart is like an open highway - Jon Bon Jovi

  • These are the seasons of emotion and like the winds they rise and fall - Led Zeppelin

  • Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull

  • You are as subtle as a brick to the small of my back - Taking Back Sunday

資料來源：http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/figures-simile.htm

Reporters: Did you fight him ?

記者們: 你有反抗嗎 ?

Billy ( as Roxie ): Like a tiger.

比利 ( 充當蘿西 ): 像隻老虎般兇猛的反抗。

1. People stream out like bees.

蜂湧而出

2. She sings like a bird.

3. She eats like a bird.

吃得很少

4. She's like a bull in a china shop.

直譯: 像頭在瓷器店的公牛

指某人笨手笨腳的

5. He runs like a deer.

跑得很快

6. She has a memory like an elephant.

超強的記憶~~

據說大象的記憶很好，一輩子也不會忘記發生在自己身上的事。

7. He swims like a fish.

8. He drinks like a fish.

像魚一般的喝 = 牛飲

也就是猛喝酒的意思~~

9. He eats like a horse.

吃得很多

10. She fights like a lion / tiger.

兇猛的打鬥

11. He is bleeding like a stuck pig.

血流如注

屠豬ˊ時會先放血。

12. She follows like sheep.

盲目順從

資料來源：看電影學英文

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