我觉得她没有领会故事的中心意思。

I don't think she saw the point of the story.

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你知道这篇文章的中心意思吗？

Do you know the general mind (main meaning) of the article?

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这篇文章的中心意思是什么？

What's the central idea of this article?

youdao

Now, egocentrism has a meaning in common English which means to be selfish.

自我中心这个词在如今的日常英语里,是自私的意思

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What do I mean by a center?

中心是什么意思？

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But is has another sense which is not a rhetorical sense, because metaphor is sort of the heart of rhetoric, the rhetorical sense A is B--when, by the way, A we know perfectly well that A is not B. How can A be B? A is only A.

但是is有另外一个意思，修辞之外的一种意思，因为暗喻差不多可以说是修辞的中心，修辞中所说的A是B，顺便说一下，我们十分清楚地知道A不是B，A怎么能是B呢，A就是。

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