Is this metaphor, think about the relationship between the mind and the body as similar to the relationship between harmony and a harp.

思考思想和身体的关系,是否和这个比喻里,和声和竖琴的关系相同。

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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

And so as a way of understanding what at this point is really the sheer repetitiveness of this disclaimer, I want to propose a metaphor.

因此为了理解这个论点是否真的,是这种放弃的纯粹的重复，我将会提出一个隐喻。

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This is a metaphor that Derrida frequently uses, as a kind of writing on the ear.

这是德里达经常用的一个比喻，就像在耳朵上书写。

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But the story captured the metaphor of what this class very much is about.

但是这个故事抓住了这门课程精髓。

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So I like this tree metaphor here.

所以我比较喜欢这样的树的比喻。

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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。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Later writers take this poetic image and fill out the allusion to - drowning in this ancient song, and compose the prose accounts in Exodus 14, in which the metaphor is literalized.

随后，作者利用这个场景,用这个古老的歌谣进行影射，创作了这一段白话诗,《出埃及记》14，在这段文字中的暗喻被文学化了。

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B In fact, it's even a question whether A is A, but it's certainly not B, right? This much we know. In the grammatical sense there is no sort of mystification about the metaphor.

实际上，人们甚至对A是不是A都有疑问，但肯定不是，是吧，我们都知道这点，而从语法的角度来看,并没有像暗喻一样的神秘化。

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