But a few verses later it's clear that the poet isn't really drowning: this is a metaphor for his difficult situation.

但是随后的几首诗证明了，诗人并没有真正的溺水：,这里的水象征着困境。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

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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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。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

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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