(Recording) Yoon says the North Korean leader is trying to "lower his son down safely from the back of a tiger, without getting eaten" a metaphor referring to Kim Jong Il's apparent plans for his youngest son to take over one day.

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And the metaphor for that relationship is a metaphor of struggle, or wrestling.

对这种关系的比喻是,是搏斗和摔跤的角逐。

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Yeats sees the Second Coming as an image, as a myth, an idea, a metaphor, a certain stylistic arrangement of experience.

叶芝把第二次降临看成一个意向，一个神话，一个意识，一个比喻，一种诗意的安排和感受。

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If might be an image, a comparison, the finding of likeness between unlike things which is at the heart of metaphor and simile making.

也可能是一个意象，一个对比，在不同之物中寻找到的相同点,而这也是隐喻和明喻的内涵。

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And so as a way of understanding what at this point is really the sheer repetitiveness of this disclaimer, I want to propose a metaphor.

因此为了理解这个论点是否真的,是这种放弃的纯粹的重复，我将会提出一个隐喻。

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Metaphor is the bringing together in a statement of identity of the discourse that's attempting to articulate itself.

比喻就是表述,试图自我阐明交谈特点的过程。

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The philosophic city is introduced as a metaphor to help us understand the education of the soul.

哲学之城的导入,是要作为一种隐喻,协助我们了解灵魂的教育。

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Maybe the claim we all die alone is intended as a kind of metaphor.

也许这个说法其实是一种比喻。

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As we talk about this, as people talk about this, in the context of our object-oriented programming, they typically will talk about it in terms of message pass, a message passing metaphor.

当我们讨论这个的时候，当人们讨论这个的时候,在面向对象编程的背景下它们往往会,被称为消息传递，也就是传递隐喻的消息。

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This is a metaphor that Derrida frequently uses, as a kind of writing on the ear.

这是德里达经常用的一个比喻，就像在耳朵上书写。

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And that I think may be a little bit - - that's a metaphor in itself - that may be a little bit much to ask of a work of art.

但我认为这个要求,我说的本身也是一个比喻-,对于一个艺术作品来说有些太多了。

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One of the defining characteristics of a metaphor is that it breaks down almost immediately.

因为比喻的一个内在特点,就是转瞬即逝。

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It's a bit more-- to continue with the metaphor of the on-of switch-- as though not only is the switch turned to off, there's a lock on the switch.

要继续用开关的比喻-,就有点奇怪了-,似乎开关的上面，还有一个锁定装置。

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Every sentence is a predication, and if every sentence is a predication, it also has the structure of a metaphor; and the metaphor in a sentence and the predication in a sentence are always going to be at odds.

每句话都是一句声明，而如果每句话都是一句声明得话，它同样也有隐喻的结构，而一个句子中的隐喻,和句子中的声明总会有分歧。

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One way of thinking about the metaphor of city and soul together is to think of it as a particular kind of causal hypothesis, about the formation of both individual character and political institutions.

思考城市与灵魂结合的方法,是将其想象成,是一种特别类型的,因果假说，关于形塑,个人性格与政治制度。

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There is something that one might be able to hold on to: the knob of something, the little flame of something that ; The grain of sand. -The grain of sand; but there is really not a decent metaphor for it, I think.

一个你可以依靠的支点：,一个不同寻常的想法，一个思想的小火花,就像一粒沙中看世界，-一粒沙中看世界;,不过我认为任何比喻都不够贴切。

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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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