Figurative use of language is an important means to structure word meanings, but the simple distinction between literal-figurative meanings is rather general in understanding figurative USES.

语言的比喻性用法是构建词义的重要途径，但简单的字面义——比喻义的划分会使比喻性语言的理解过于笼统。

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This structure will be exactly the same, even if we had exported the document through the DOORS add-in from Word.

该结构都是一致的，就算我们是将文档从Word通过DOORS插件导出的，也是这样。

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To achieve this structure, add a fitness attribute to each word.

要得到这种结构，向每个单词添加一个fitness属性。

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Student: The beauty of the language and symmetry, the sentence structure, the word choice: I guess going away from the theme, more of just the language.

语言的优美和对称，句子结构，选用的词：,我想除开主题，我更喜欢它的语言。

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The household structure of a Roman household was this-- and I say "household," because our word "family," which we usually take to mean the biological family: the father, the mother, the children, maybe the grandchildren, maybe the extended family.

罗马人的家户结构是。。。,我用“家户“是因为“家庭“,通常是指有血缘关系的亲人：,父亲，母亲，孩子，可能还有孙辈，大家庭。

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No word as yet as to what this means for the organizational structure behind the customer interface.

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His word is held in such high esteem that investment banks that structure derivative products for him don't require that he put up a lot of collateral.

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Her readings of Melville are alive with detail and analysis a surprising word here, a dying cadence there, the shapes and structure of plot and meaning but she is above all conscious of the inexplicable in his work.

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