In bridge building we're well advanced in understanding what are the problems with building bridges and how do we overcome them?

在桥梁建设中我们十分清楚地了解,在造桥的过程中会遇到什么问题,以及如何克服这些问题

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We don't quite clearly understand exactly what that means and who and exactly when.

实际上我们并不十分清楚这学派意味着什么,学派里的谁写的这些书，什么时候写的。

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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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