However, they note that the theory is still in the early conceptual stages, and has a long way to go before they know how accurate it is.

不过，他们也指出，该套理论仍然处于概念化的早期阶段，在他们懂得如何去将它精确化之前，还有很长的一段路要走。

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Besides, composition, completion, and elaboration as three cognitive processes of conceptual integration theory are also used in the analysis of synaesthetic metaphor.

此外，组合、完善和扩展作为概念整合理论的三个认知过程也将用于分析通感隐喻的形成过程。

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On the basis of cognitive process, metonymy and conceptual integration theory may be closely related.

因此在认知过程研究的基础上，转喻与概念整合理论可以进行关联研究。

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What was most interesting about our conversations was that my questions and comments as a literary writer who frequently uses science theory to shape the conceptual design of my texts, opened up possibilities within their fields of research that they had not yet envisioned.

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