Culture as a root metaphor sees the organization as its culture.

文化作为一个根本的隐喻，将组织视为其文化。

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The photograph by itself is only a token of a moment gone by. Its power lies in the metaphor, for photography captures our minds more than we capture the subject.

摄影本身只是捕捉一个逝去的瞬间，它的力量在于它的隐喻，因为摄影抓获了我们的思想而不是我们抓获了所拍摄的主体。

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The butterfly, with its otherworldly beauty and silence, is, of course, a common metaphor for the soul.

那只蝴蝶无疑是灵魂的一个暗喻，带着另一个世界的美丽和安静。

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It is the first and still only company to use a female design metaphor for its electronics, in a world of consumer electronics dominated with macho design.

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Even if it is a fading symbol of Chinese society, the bicycle remains a tempting metaphor for its economy.

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For all its abstractness, "Mountains and Sea" is fundamentally a landscape painting, and nature its forms, its moods and above all its unbridled power remained a recurring metaphor in Frankenthaler's art.

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