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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The metaphor suggests ecstasy, the exaltation of modern life, that aspiration imaged in Stieglitz too.

这个暗喻指的是心醉神迷，现代生活的狂喜，这种热切的渴望也反映在施蒂格利茨的照片中。

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You actually see this near the top of your handout, the allusion from the Faerie Queene.

事实上你们可以在自己讲义的上方看到，那源自《仙后》的暗喻。

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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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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。

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In effect, in that middle part of the poem, Yeats collapses creation and destruction, suggesting that the same bestial energy flows through both of these acts.

事实上，在此诗中间部分，叶芝于创造与毁灭中徘徊，暗喻，此间也贯穿着兽性的力量。

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Milton lends a special horror, I think, to this image of a blind Fury, and I hope you will agree with those critics -- I didn't make this up - who find embedded in these lines something like a figurative intimation of castration.

弥尔顿给这个暴怒形象添加了特殊的恐怖色彩，我希望你们同意--这不是我编造的,-有评论家发现这几句字里行间,在暗喻阉割。

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I don't understand what your metaphors are all about.

我不明白你暗喻的是什么。

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So what are we to do with this allusion?

我们怎样来看这个暗喻呢？

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A mobile army of metaphors, metonymies, anthropomorphisms in short, a sum of human relations which became poetically and rhetorically intensified," "and are now no longer of account as coins but are debased."

一支由暗喻，转喻，拟人组成的机动部队,简单来说，人们之间的关系,诗意般地在修辞上加强了“,人们之间的关系不再值钱，而被贬低了“

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You don't know what a metaphor is.

你不懂什么是暗喻。

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I don't think that the critics who see here an image of castration are just imagining it, because there is such a weird and such a persistent interest in the human body, and especially in the poet's body, throughout this poem - Milton's focus on the body, on the entire realm of the corporeal.

有评论家认为弥尔顿在这里是暗喻阉割不是,凭空想象出来的，因为贯穿《利西达斯》整首诗,都有一种奇怪的一直都存在的对于人体，尤其是对这诗人的身体的兴趣,-弥尔顿对人体，对整个物质世界的关注。

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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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But is has another sense which is not a rhetorical sense, because metaphor is sort of the heart of rhetoric, the rhetorical sense A is B--when, by the way, A we know perfectly well that A is not B. How can A be B? A is only A.

但是is有另外一个意思，修辞之外的一种意思，因为暗喻差不多可以说是修辞的中心，修辞中所说的A是B，顺便说一下，我们十分清楚地知道A不是B，A怎么能是B呢，A就是。

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