As true as I live, he's dying for you; breaking his heart at your fickleness: not figuratively , but actually.

就跟我现在活着一样的真实，他为了你都快死啦，因为你的三心二意而心碎啦：我这不是在打比方，是实际上如此。

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If your jogging clothes weren't made of permeable fabric, you'd drown in your own sweat (figuratively speaking).

如果你的慢跑运动服不是由可透气的织物做的，那么你会淹死在自己的汗水里（比喻说法）。

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So today's computer or smartphone is, figuratively , a United Nations assembly of parts.

所以现在的手机或电脑，可以形象地说，就是一个美国组装。

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Figuratively speaking, the tree grows in height.

形象地说，树长高了。

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Figuratively speaking, of course, those fathers having long been ground up and turned into so much cultural mulch.

形象地说，这些前辈们早已被碾碎然后与诸多文化的根源搅和在一起。

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In India adults still look up to their parents. But only figuratively .

印度的青年仍需仰视他们的父母——仅在比喻意上。

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In many languages, food is often used metaphorically or figuratively , as in "food for thought" .

在许多语言里，食物通常被用来做隐语或比喻，例如“foodforthought（令人深思的事情）”。

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warriorLet's face it: software testers are constantly in a state of warfare, figuratively speaking.

战士让我们来面对现实：打比方说，软件测试人员经常处于作战状态。

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The energy intensive lamps are quite literally, and figuratively , getting a green makeover and may be sprouting on a street near you soon.

这些能耗大的街灯真正地同时也象征性地经历了一次绿色转变，并且可能很快就会遍布在你们的街道上。

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any person or thing that is doomed to fail or die; to have failed or died, ( usually used figuratively )

注定失败或死亡的人或事；失败或死亡，（一般用做比喻用法）

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Fluctuate is most often used figuratively to imply fairly constant alternating change:

最常用于喻指比较稳定的交替变化：

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