英汉借代修辞传统源远流长。西方学者已将借代研究拓展至修辞领域之外,有些学者认为借代的重要性不亚于隐喻。国内关于借代的研究一直未能取得突破。从新的视角重新审视借代定义和分类,可以找出英汉借代诸多共通之处。 The rhetorical tradition of English and Chinese borrows from ancient times has a long history. Western scholars have extended the study of the metaphysics beyond the field of rhetoric. Some scholars think that the importance of metaplasia is no less than metaphor. Domestic research on metonymy has been unable to make a breakthrough. From a new perspective to re-examine the definition and classification of inter-generation, you can find out many common ancestry of English and Chinese.