(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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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。

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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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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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And the reasons for this coupling of the name Milton and of this idea or the metaphor of power, I think, are worth looking in to.

我认为，人们之所以将米尔顿这个名字,与力量这个概念配对的原因是值得研究的。

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The vocabulary that we have to wrestle with for today's essay is taken in part from Jakobson's understanding of the relationship between metaphor and metonymy, and we will have more to say about that.

今天的论文中我们读来很费劲的词汇,一部分是从雅克布森,对暗喻和转喻的理解，我们将会在这方面讲更多。

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You can, for instance, use the power of metaphor.

例如，你可以…,利用隐喻的力量。

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Now eating can perhaps be a metaphor for sex, some have argued.

有人说，“吃“也许是对性的隐喻。

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