Conceptual metaphor is a mental construct mapping from a concrete source domain onto a target domain (which is often abstract) for the purpose of understanding the target domain.

概念隐喻是一种心理建构映射，这种映射往往是从一个具体的源域投射到一个抽象的目的域，以认知该目的域。

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Humans, by contrast, are able to construct a mental model of a scene from a photograph by taking into account the relative sizes of recognised objects, the laws of physics and some basic common sense.

反之，人类则可以考虑物体的相对大小，物理特性以及一些基本常识，通过观察相片而在脑海中构造场景的模型。

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Wimmer and Perner (1983) argued that this was because they could not construct a separate mental model of the world that represented Maxi's experience - they weren't capable of a theory of mind.

Wimmer and Perner 认为，这是因为他们不能通过Maxi的视角，构建一个与自己世界不同的心理模型。 也就是说，他们还不具备心理理论。

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My mental construct for this correction comes from sovereign wealth funds and other big money moving out of euros and placing their portfolios into other currencies.

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