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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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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So if you think about it, that is the metaphor we use as we are thinking about the work that we are going to be doing.

你们想想，这个比喻就是用来,描述我们正在思考的,即将要完成的任务。

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Is this metaphor, think about the relationship between the mind and the body as similar to the relationship between harmony and a harp.

思考思想和身体的关系,是否和这个比喻里,和声和竖琴的关系相同。

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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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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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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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