They can clarify their thinking by taking on a metaphorical perspective.

天才们可以用形象化的观点理清思路。

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The class spent 15 minutes teasing out the metaphorical meaning of a line about "places with no carpet on the floor. "

为了弄清“没铺地毯的地方”一句里的隐义，整堂课光讨论就花去了15分钟。

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To create their artificial cephalopod they started with the animal's literal and metaphorical killer app: its flexible, pliable arms.

为了制造人工头足类机器人，他们开始从字面和隐喻意义上来了解章鱼的杀手武器：灵活而柔韧的臂腕触手。

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I know I'm a boy and I don't really have a biological clock, but I have a metaphorical biological clock and that's close enough.

我知道我是一个男孩，我不可能拥有生理时钟，但是我有一个足够亲密的隐藏着的生物钟。

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Clearly, this is all very metaphorical here with the back yard options.

显而易见，这对于后院的选择是充满了不确定的。

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He now has three metaphorical gold medals to add to his chestful of real military gongs.

现在在他的行军箱里又多了3枚金质奖章。

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As a unique genre among Chinese idioms, Xiehouyu (hereinafter XHY) contains rich metaphorical meanings.

歇后语是汉语习语中一种独特的表现形式，蕴含丰富的隐喻意义。

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Many words and phrases have both literal and metaphorical meaning.

许多词既有字面意义，又有隐喻意义。

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Metaphorical mappings are systematic processes during which experiences are mapped from one domain to another.

隐喻的映射过程是一个系统的过程，是从一个认知域映射到另一个认知域的过程。

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The metaphorical cognition mode is based on human physical experience on both themselves and the outside world as well.

隐喻认知方式建立在人对自身和世界的体验基础之上。

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Sometimes his writing has a metaphorical richness that reminds us of the debt Thoreau owes to such authors as Sir Thomas Brown.

有时他的文章富有隐喻，这是梭罗得力于托马斯·布朗之类的作家的地方。

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Diagrammatic Iconicity and Metaphorical Iconicity in Language

语言符号的图表象似性与隐喻象似性

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Increasingly many Americans see nothing wrong, and in fact something cool and fun, in gayness, literal and metaphorical .

越来越多的美国人认为同性恋结婚没有错，字面意思和比喻意思都很酷、很有趣。

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Among them teenage pregnancies are rare and often followed by marriage, sometimes at the point of a metaphorical shotgun.

在这些家庭中，少女怀孕非常少见，常常都是结婚后生育，有时结婚生子几乎同时。

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This literal diminution of his stature inevitably reduces his metaphorical stature, too.

这个表面上身材的差距不可避免的也会降低他心理上的地位。

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It looks obviously metaphorical , but it doesn't bear unravelling.

这明显具有隐喻性，却又经不起解析。

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These physics concepts will be used in ways both scientifically rigorous and purely metaphorical .

这些物理学概念的应用可以在科学上很严谨，也可以是完全的比喻义。

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Then try it by making as many verbs as possible metaphorical (embedded metaphors).

最后，试着尽可能的把动词变作有隐喻的（嵌入式的隐喻）。

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As a kind of context, national culture can be a part of the connotation of metaphorical speech.

作为语境的民族文化，可以成为隐喻性话语内涵的组成部分。

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