The simile pushes the size of the spear clean out of our rational comprehension, and it's this process that is, according to Stanley Fish, the point of the simile.

这个比喻对长矛的形容,大大超出了正常的理解范围，对斯坦利费什来说，这恰恰是表达这个比喻的目的的一个过程。

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Well a natural definition of death might be something like the end of life.

正常的理解是死亡是,生命的终结

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Rather, by looking at extreme cases, they can help us best understand normal life.

相反,研究这些极端的例子,可以帮助我们理解正常的生活

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Another comparison for a meaningful drug screening essay, I would assume you would need 1 million cells that you could grow easily in a standard cell culture dish.

我们不妨再用一个,便于你理解的药物筛选试验来打个比方，假设正常情况下,一个标准细胞培养皿需要一百万个细胞。

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Because maybe the program worked on some inputs and not on others.

一次如果理解了程序为什么,能对a正常运行而对b却不能你就会。

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