It's as if a gap has opened up, a gap between the official argument of and the rhetorical figures or the metaphors, Milton's elaborately construed language, which he uses to illustrate that argument.

这就像是一个鸿沟在专著中的正式论点,和运用修辞和比喻的部分之间打开了，弥尔顿精心地解释和分析他用来，阐述这个论点的语言。

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Crane is full of mixed metaphors; you're not supposed to mix your metaphors and he does, all the time.

克莱恩的诗里充满了相互交织的隐喻;,你们无法将这些隐喻结合而谈，但他做到了，一直都是。

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To speak both of Jove and of Christ is obviously in some ways to mix your metaphors and the effect can only be disorienting.

同时提到丘比特和救世主在某种方式上,很明显使人们对暗喻和其所起的作用感到迷惑。

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Yeats said that the voices that he communicated with on the other side gave him "metaphors for poetry."

叶芝说,来自异界的和他讲话的声音,给了他诗的隐喻“

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