This is a metaphor used to illustrate this observation.
这是一个用来说明这一观察的隐喻。
Eating is a metaphor that is sometimes used to signify marriage.
“吃”是一个比喻，有时用来表示婚姻。
Yeats sees the Second Coming as an image, as a myth, an idea, a metaphor, a certain stylistic arrangement of experience.
叶芝把《第二次降临》看成一个意象、一个神话、一个意识、一个比喻、一种诗意感受的安排。
I'm teasing you. Didn't you see that it was a metaphor?
我逗你玩儿呢。我只是打个比方而已。
He USES AIDS as a metaphor to describe what's going with CCD.
他用艾滋病做比喻来描述CCD的整个过程。
One way of doing this is touse a metaphor elicitation technique.
有一种方法是使用隐喻提取技术。
B a metaphor is what we call a poetic lie. Everybody knows a is not b.
隐喻就是我们所指的诗化的谎言，人人都知道A不是。
A metaphor that really helps me is that of picking up and putting down rocks.
有一个隐喻，是关于捡起以及扔掉石头的，它对我真的很有启示。
Still, distress from rejection isn't really pain—that's just a metaphor, right?
否认哀伤不是真正的疼痛，那只是个隐喻？
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。
This is a metaphor for how much we need love and how much we need to be needed.
这是一个隐喻，它折射出我们是多么需要爱，同时我们又是多么需要被别人需要。
Unfortunately this is just a metaphor, and not a useful one to most people outside the US.
不过这只是个比喻，而且对于大多数老外（也即“非老美”）来说不够形象。
Haggis did so. In a moment, he returned. "is this a metaphor?" he asked the supervisor.
哈吉斯照做了。一会儿他又回来了，“这是一个隐喻吗？”他问管理员。
It USES time travel as a metaphor for fate, with Henry and Clare destined to be together.
它将时空穿梭喻为命运，是命运将亨利和克莱尔连在一起。
He USES the word "currency" as a metaphor for an inner language to make sense of the world.
他把单词“货币”比作一种使世界变得有意义的内在语言。
The philosophic city is introduced as a metaphor to help us understand the education of the soul.
哲学之城的导入,是要作为一种隐喻,协助我们了解灵魂的教育。
A child has only one parent (it's only a metaphor, folks), a parent may have multiple children.
一个子只有一个父(各位，这只是个比方)，一个父可能有多个子。
If that sounds like a metaphor for Japan's current malaise, then perhaps there is a silver lining.
如果这听起来像是隐喻了日本当今的不稳定，那可能还是有一线希望的。
Charlie Gilkey — He helps creative people get their stuff out into the world. He is a metaphor ninja.
查理吉尔---他帮助有创造性的人们得到他们需要的东西，他是一个默默支持你的人。
And trying to find your boyfriend is a metaphor for you trying to find out "where he's at" psychologically.
尽力找到你的男朋友则是你试图弄明白心理上“他在哪”的隐喻。
Mine is a simulacrum for life, a reflection on experience and a metaphor for understanding my existence.
我的旅途是生活的模拟，对经验的反思和理解自我存在的比喻。
Again, it's a metaphor for how you might live your life, and these principles can be applied to anything you do.
在强调一下，这只是对你向往生活的一种比喻，其中的禅意可以运用于生活中的任意方面。
Here, being "Chinese" is merely a metaphor, and a reasonable one at that, for Chinese language (and cultural) fluency.
这里，是“中国人”不过是个比喻，是对掌握中国语言(与中国文化)的程度的比喻，而且是个挺合道理的比喻。
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。
The wreckage of the ship so famous it remains a metaphor nearly a century later is collapsing on itself two miles underwater.
泰坦尼克的残骸极为著名，直到这艘船沉没近一个世纪之后，这个短语仍然是著名的比喻，但这些残骸却在水下两英里处渐渐分崩拆离。
The calf's battle and the herd's assist have become to me a metaphor for countless struggles taking place around the globe.
小牛的奋争和群牛的协助，让我联想到正在世界各地进行的数不清的战斗。
The calf's battle and the herd's assist have become to me a metaphor for countless struggles taking place around the globe.
小牛的奋争和群牛的协助，让我联想到正在世界各地进行的数不清的战斗。
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