Suddenly,he put his hand into the water and rubbed two of his fingers together, making a strange sound, exactly like the sound of a croaking frog.

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By the way, I'm going to leave also to your sections the strange confusion that ensues in taking a rhetorical device, metonymy, and making it synonymous with grammar on the axis of combination.

另外，我还将把奇怪的困惑留给你们思考,这个困惑随着使用修辞学策略和转喻而产生，并使得它在结合轴上与语法有着同样的意思。

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It works by taking what we know from familiar unquestioned settings and making it strange.

它将我们所熟知的，毋庸置疑的事物,变得陌生。

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