我认为这是一个重要的区别，因为在弥尔顿对地狱的描述中，这个比喻的中间，是一个凉亭的形象。
I think this is an important distinction because what in the middle of this simile in Milton's account of hell is an image of a bower.
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。
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.
这里是混合比喻的重要性。
上下文显明了用语必须以比喻的方式出现。
The context shows that the words must be taken figuratively.
哈特曼关于这些比喻的描述并不是时间性的。
Hartman's image of the simile isn't temporal the way Fish's was.
它只有在你说一些不能直接用比喻的口吻说出的事情时才会用到。
It's a word you use when you say something that shouldn't just be interpreted figuratively.
使用设计债的金融比喻的技术问题，被证明是管理的一种有效形式。
Discussing technical problems using the financial metaphor of design debt is a proven way to get through to management.
比喻的翻译通常可以采用三种基本方法：保留形象，更换形象，舍弃形象。
Three basic methods are commonly adopted in the translation of analogy: reserve image, change image and abandon image.
这个比喻的目的，是要表明由我们想象的天使们的样子，带来的模糊和困惑。
Now, the purpose of this simile is to evince the indistinctness and the confusion produced by our vision of the fallen angels.
对于我们来说要确定比喻的意思，最简单的方法就是要遵循三个简单的规则。
The simplest way for us to determine the meaning of a parable is to follow three simple rules.
路25 - 29节怎样预备我们找到这个比喻的意图？清楚阐述它的意图。
How do verses 25-29 prepare us for finding the purpose of this parable? Clearly state that purpose.
在一起工作的那段时间里，我们的关系越来越巩固，就像人们比喻的，创业者都们都相互结过婚。
The time we spent working on it together only reinforced the marriage metaphor everyone uses about cofounders.
即使您从未有过家庭度假(或者已经过去很长时间了)，我也认为您会看到这一越野旅行比喻的意义。
Even if you've never taken a family vacation (or it's been a long time), I think you'll see the value of this cross-country trip metaphor.
很多人认为这个比喻的寓意是“善待所有人。”请解释为何这种观点误解了这个比喻的要点。
Many people think that the main point of this parable is "be kind to all people." Explain how that idea misses the main point of the parable.
在一个充斥着蹩脚比喻的行业，突然有人跳出来并抓住富有创造力的业务和IT人员的想象力，这一点也不奇怪。
In an industry awash in cutesy metaphors, it's no surprise when another one pops up and grabs the popular imagination of creative business and it people.
Huckabee先生的弱点在于对他可能是个思想深度不够的人-从比喻的意义或字面上来说都是这样-的担心。
Mr Huckabee's weakness is the worry that he may be a lightweight figuratively as well as literally.
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。
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.
但是，当他坐在那儿，把一本厚厚的字典放在腿上，就像阅读盲文似的用手摸索着书本，我就看了一个关于那种比喻的活生生的例子。
But when he sat with a big dictionary in his lap, hands spread as though reading braille, I saw the metaphor come to life.
传统的“我的电脑”图标就是使用比喻的方式来表达一个抽象概念：你的家，你的空间，你的东西所在的地方，你每天要去的地方等等。
The traditional home icon represents a chain of metaphoric significants related to the home ( your place, your space, where your things are, to where your return every day, etc.)
过去几周发布了一系列关于约会和生活的帖子以后，我已经被提问好多次，大家都很想知道我是如何冒出那些想法，把约会看成生活的比喻的？
Since publishing a series of posts on dating and living in the last couple of weeks, I've been asked several times how I came up with the idea to see dating as a kind of metaphor for life.
从比喻的角度来看，“壳”就是他们在汽车上背着的一个个包，堆的各种电线、光盘、数码密钥、电池、各种插头和纸面文件(以防光盘失效)。
In the metaphorical sense, the shell might be a "carry-on" bag on wheels, stuffed full of cables, discs, dongles, batteries, plugs and paper documents (just in case of disc failure).
正如提欧·霍布森(神学作家)几年前在他给我的信中所言：“很大一部分信徒都徘徊于‘字面的’和‘比喻的’信仰之间的灰色地带，甚至从某种意义上来说所有的信徒都会这样。”
As Theo Hobson put it in an exchange with me a few years back, "a huge proportion of believers inhabit this grey area between 'literal' and 'metaphorical' belief - in a sense all believers do."
正如提欧·霍布森(神学作家)几年前在他给我的信中所言：“很大一部分信徒都徘徊于‘字面的’和‘比喻的’信仰之间的灰色地带，甚至从某种意义上来说所有的信徒都会这样。”
As Theo Hobson put it in an exchange with me a few years back, "a huge proportion of believers inhabit this grey area between 'literal' and 'metaphorical' belief - in a sense all believers do."
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