(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。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Metaphor is the bringing together in a statement of identity of the discourse that's attempting to articulate itself.

比喻就是表述,试图自我阐明交谈特点的过程。

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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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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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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。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

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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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。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It's a metaphor,but still an important insight into his psychology.

这是个比喻，但也是对他心理的重要洞察。

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