Every sentence is a predication, and if every sentence is a predication, it also has the structure of a metaphor; and the metaphor in a sentence and the predication in a sentence are always going to be at odds.

每句话都是一句声明，而如果每句话都是一句声明得话，它同样也有隐喻的结构，而一个句子中的隐喻,和句子中的声明总会有分歧。

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A predication, on the other hand, usually goes forward in the service of referentiality.

另外，一个声明通常会走向,指示性功能。

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In the grammatical sense, this word is the means or principal of predication whereby we say one thing is another thing: the mare is the female of the horse, for example.

从语法的角度来看，is这个词是,我们声明一个东西是另一个东西的方式或者？委托：,例如说，母马是马中的雌性。

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