隐喻是人类认知世界过程中一种不可或缺的重要方式和手段。人类的概念系统在很大程度上建立在“本体隐喻”基础上。鉴于此,本文结合BNC和CLL两个语料库,以“deep”和“深”为搜索关键词,对从中随机选取的五十二个例子进行此项语义分析,试探讨英汉语在隐喻意义使用上所反映的本体隐喻特点及其异同。 Metaphor is an indispensable and important method and means in human cognition of the world. The human conceptual system is largely based on the “ontology metaphor.” In view of this, this article combines the two corpora of BNC and CLL, with “deep ” and “deep” as the search key words, conducts semantic analysis of fifty-two randomly selected examples from this corpus, The Characteristics and Similarities and Differences of Ontological Metaphor as Reflected in the Use of Metaphorical Meaning.