figurative

1. ADJ 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

...an event that will change your route – in both the literal and figurative sense. …一件將改變你路線的大事–既在原義上也在喻義上。

2. figurativelyADV 比喻地

I saw that she was, both literally and figuratively, up against a wall. 我都看到她，既是事實(shí)上也是比喻地，面臨一道墻。

3. ADJ Figurative art is a style of art in which people and things are shown in a realistic way. 形象 (藝術(shù))

His career spanned some 50 years and encompassed both abstract and figurative painting. 他的藝術(shù)生涯跨越了大約五十個(gè)年頭，抽象和形象油畫兩者都有所造詣。