Writer-director Cameron also acknowledges that what the humans try to do on the fictional Pandora is a clear metaphor for what he believes are the dangers of exploitation on our own planet;

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And of course, any political movement that tries to bring us together-- people together says--uses a family metaphor.

当然，任何政治行动,想把人们团结起来-,就会把人们称为一家人。

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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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Later writers take this poetic image and fill out the allusion to - drowning in this ancient song, and compose the prose accounts in Exodus 14, in which the metaphor is literalized.

随后，作者利用这个场景,用这个古老的歌谣进行影射，创作了这一段白话诗,《出埃及记》14，在这段文字中的暗喻被文学化了。

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Surrounded--Surrounding--To complete a mechanical metaphor that would have led Descartes to despair-- Thank you, Koleen.

这也是个可以让笛卡尔绝望的,机械性隐喻,谢谢你,柯琳

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Now, maybe the one-room metaphor is not the best metaphor, because it immediately prompts the question, "Well, what's on the other side of the wall?"

也许一间房的比喻并不是最好的,因为它立刻会引出这个问题,墙的另一边是什么呢

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He positions pro-censorship argument alongside anti-censorship rhetoric or metaphor, and there are dozens of moments in which it's just these opposites that are being asked to coexist in some kind of peace.

他把支持控制出版的论点和反对控制出版的修辞和,比喻放在一起，有无数次这样的对立,被要求和平共处在一起。

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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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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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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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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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