This is a world understood from a metonymic point of view as that which lacks organicity, and yet at the same time the whole point of the story is thematically metaphoric.

这个世界要从转喻的角度来理解,因为世界没有组织性，而且同时,整个故事的主旨就是比喻性的。

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Condensation, in other words, is metaphorical in its nature, and displacement is metonymic in its nature.

换句话说，凝缩本质上是比喻，移置本质上是转喻。

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It must be metonymic--but wait! It is spoken by a voice.

它肯定是转喻的，但是等等，它是有声音的。

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Now as metonymy, the delays we have been talking about, -- the paratactic structure of the way in which the story is told-- all of those, and the elements of repetition, are forms that we recognize as metonymic, but there's something beyond that at the level of theme.

作为转喻，我们之前说过的延后，在这个故事中表现为那种并列的结构-,都是重复的元素，我们把它们看做是转喻的，但是还有些东西在这个主题之上。

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