Used metaphorically, the juxtaposed terms connote specific or essential traits of the being they refer to, introducing a mode of poetry as an almost habitual form of expression.
用比喻的方式，并列的术语隐含着它们所指称的存在的具体或本质的特征，引入了一种诗歌的模式作为习惯性的表达形式。
You're speaking metaphorically, I hope.
我希望你是在打比方。
I'll leave you in Robin's capable hands— metaphorically speaking , of course!
我要把你放到罗宾能干的手中—当然，这只是打个比方。
Or I am speaking metaphorically-that might also help.
或者我换一种方式说，这也有帮助。
Yes, yes, metaphorically speaking. - STONE: Well, that's the spirit.
是的，可以这么说-很好，要的就是这种精神。
Metamorphosis is symbolic of ascension both metaphorically and physically.
蜕变是精神和身体上同时提升的象征。
What is terrifying is the risk of humiliation, of metaphorically falling flat on one's face.
人们怕的是丢脸的风险，就好像摔个嘴啃泥那样脸面尽失。
In many languages, food is often used metaphorically or figuratively, as in "food for thought".
在许多语言里，食物通常被用来做隐语或比喻，例如“foodforthought（令人深思的事情）”。
Therefore, absorbing foreign culture is metaphorically a process of taking a bite, chewing and ingesting.
打个比喻，吸取外国文化是一个入口、咀嚼和消化的过程。
Therefore, absorbing foreign culture is metaphorically a process of taking a bite, chewing, and digesting.
打个比喻，吸取外国文化是一个入口、咀嚼和消化的过程。
To stumble when walking, often used metaphorically to mean to make a serious mistake or fall into perdition.
行走时不小心跌倒。比喻人堕落或犯严重错误。
It is generally recognized that Zhuangzi's futility of utility metaphorically signifies the natural futility of Tao.
一般认为，庄子的无用之用是以隐喻的方式对自然无为之道的拟说。
This idiom is used metaphorically to mean to be in a helpless and critical situation, surrounded by the enemy on all sides.
这个成语比喻处于无助和严峻的情形以及被敌人团团包围的境地。
This idiom is used metaphorically to mean to be in a helpless and critical situation, surrounded by the enemy on all sides.
“四面楚歌”这个成语比喻四面受到敌人的攻击，处于孤立危急的困境。
The myth tells us metaphorically that the imperfection of the heaven and our lives is chosen by curious human being themselves.
神话以其隐喻的方式告诉我们，天地乃至生命之不完美是好奇的人类自己的选择。
From the cognitive perspective, synaesthesia is also a kind of metaphor, and it embodies metaphorically cognitive and thinking processes.
从认知的视角看，通感又是一种隐喻，同样包含着隐喻性的认知和思维过程。
This idiom was later used metaphorically to describe talking in a vivid and eloquent way, mostly in an exaggerated and impartical manner.
这个成语后来比喻说话有声有色，非常动听，多指夸大的或不切实际的事情。
Additionally, we need to incentivize the development and marketing of technologies that will, metaphorically speaking, get people off the couch.
此外，我们应当鼓励开发和销售，打个比方说，使人们离开沙发的技术。
This, I fear, the author means literally rather than metaphorically, for she seems to see no difference between the elephant and the human mind.
我觉得，作者表达的观点绝非夸张比喻而是认真的，因为她似乎认为大象与人类之间的思维之间没有区别。
About using these, Mayer says, "I see these five principles as the foundation of emergence, which (metaphorically) is Scrum in flower, blooming."
关于对这些的使用，Mayer说，“我把这五条原则比做是Scrum像花儿一样盛开的基础。”
It's not surprising that teams attempted this style of development because, metaphorically, it matches how design works in more traditional engineering.
团队想使用这种风格进行开发并不奇怪，因为这更符合设计在传统工程中的工作方式。
It's all or nothing for me: if I let myself eat a little chocolate (metaphorically speaking), I almost always fall back into my old chocolate-guzzling ways.
对我来说，要么是全部，要么一点儿也没有。如果我让自己吃了一点儿巧克力(打个比方)，我注定会重新回到嗜巧克力如命的老路上。
It was on a bookshelf about forty miles away from where Crowley and Aziraphale were enjoying a rather good lunch and, metaphorically, it had just begun to tick.
它就放在一个书架上，距离正在享受美味午餐的克鲁利和亚茨拉菲尔大约四十英里的地方。它刚刚开始倒计时。
Haply, Zhu Pingzhen's Symphony of literature, Art and Education is comprised of three sections, which may be metaphorically called "the Three Stars in the sky".
朱平珍的《文艺与教育的交响》这部文集正好分为三辑，故喻之为“三星在天”。
It can be seen from an analysis and study of metaphorical verbs that some English verbs, when used outside their usual contexts, become metaphorically functional.
通过对隐喻动词的分析和研究可知，英语有些动词当应用于其通常的语境之外时便具有了隐喻的功能。
He read the last paragraph of “The Theologians” aloud, a passage in which a character goes to heaven, only to realize that his rival is, metaphorically, his other half.
他大声朗读了《神学家们》的最后一段，这段的大意是，其中一个故事人物上了天堂，才发现他在尘世的对手是他的另一半的化身。
But the Valley stands on ground that is as unstable, seismically and metaphorically, as it was in the earlier bust. Another bubble-this time, not of the Valley's making-has burst.
但同时硅谷也站在一个不稳定的、地震多发同时极富象征性的基础之上：正如先前泡沫破裂之时一样，目前另外一个泡沫——当然不是硅谷制造的——也破裂了。
If you can't expand your horizons literally, perhaps through travel, then do so metaphorically, by spending time with people from other cultures or by broadening your intellectual vistas.
如果旅行等并不能确实拓展你的视野，那么，可以试试这些，比如和其他文化的人交流或是开阔你的思路。
If you can't expand your horizons literally, perhaps through travel, then do so metaphorically, by spending time with people from other cultures or by broadening your intellectual vistas.
如果旅行等并不能确实拓展你的视野，那么，可以试试这些，比如和其他文化的人交流或是开阔你的思路。
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