What if later in life they come to a metaphorical door, like an opportunity of some sort, and instead of opening the door and taking the opportunity, they just stare at it and wonder, "What if it isn't a door?"
要是他们将来在生活中遇到一扇隐喻的门，比如某个机会的到来，会怎么样呢？他们是不是不会打开门并抓住机会，而是凝视着它，想知道“假如它不是一扇门，将会怎么样？”
Then, with the help of a spiritually heightened awareness, he was able to focus on those particular facts that would help him to see, in a metaphorical sense, the future.
然后，借助精神力量的帮助，从某种隐喻的角度来说，他能够将精神集中在那些能帮助他看到未来的特殊事件上。
In the sections below, we'll customize a metaphorical "exercise program" for software projects to help tone and strengthen these typical problem areas by working with their causes.
在下面的部分中，我们将自定义一个软件项目的比喻性的“练习程序”，通过处理这些典型问题域的原因来帮助调节和加强。
In a metaphorical way with high scientific technologies, a city is compared to a living being consisting of body and soul.
馆内通过高科技的手法，以隐喻的形式，表明城市如同一个生命活体，具备生命的结构和灵魂。
This is true in both a literal and a metaphorical sense: when nervous or stressed we're less likely to notice ideas that are at the edge of our consciousness.
这具有字面和隐喻双重的含义：在紧张或者面对压力时，我们不太注意那些处于我们意识边缘的想法。
English drew this word into the language in a metaphorical way about 500 years ago and applied it just as I've been discussing here.
大约500年前，英语吸纳了这个单词，并以隐喻的方式——我一直都在本文中讨论这个意思——来使用它。
It's a cliche to say that children are usually the victims in divorces and custody disputes, but the victimization is often literal, not metaphorical.
一种孩子通常是离婚和监护争执的受害者的说法已经不符实了，但这只是想象而已，不是事实。
But the idea of a country's using another's gold as a reserve does exist and does work, if only with the din of controversy in its metaphorical ears.
但一国将另外一国的黄金作为准备金的想法确实存在，并且也确实能够发挥作用，前提是该国能够清楚地意识到这种做法的争议性。
But in fact, in his own way, he's talking about his inability; to keep his child alive there; in a kind of metaphorical way, speaking of his failure to build a fence to last.
但事实上，以他自己的方式，他在诉说自己的无能，不能让孩子活下来，以一种象征性的方式，谈论自己不能制作出一个一直在那的栅栏。
Then one day, a good year and a half after the visit to the diagnostic pediatrician, I decided to tear open the metaphorical credit card envelope and take a cold, hard look at the fine print.
然后在一年半后的一天，从诊断儿科医生那里回来以后，我决定打开这个信用卡信封，冲了个凉水澡，艰难的看着这些小字体。
He has written about the metaphorical importance of his running; that to complete an action every day sets a kind of karmic example for his writing.
他曾写过跑步的重要寓义，因为完成这个任务就可以为写作设定一个因果业缘的关系模板。
Others blame deluges of a more metaphorical kind: floods of capital from abroad or floods of lending at home.
有人则用“大洪水”暗指一些其他的因素：国外资金和国内借贷的大量涌现。
Throughout this book, whenever consciousness is referred to as a spectrum, or as being composed of numerous bands or vibratory levels, the meaning remains strictly metaphorical.
本书中无论是将意识说成光谱，还是说它由许多波段或振动级别构成，严格地讲，这只是一种比喻。
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。”
The book's few lesser moments occur at the Chelsea Hotel, where a cast of eccentrics - including a man who wears angel's wings and a wedding dress - are asked to carry cheap metaphorical freight.
本书的一些小情节发生在切尔西酒店，那里出场了一些怪人——包括一个穿着天使翅膀个婚纱的男人——他们被要求带着便宜的运费。
At first he was using metaphorical language, telling me how a full bucket cannot take any more water.
开始他说话比较隐晦委婉，告诉我满的水桶不能再装更多的水。
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).
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)。
I know I'm a boy and I don't really have a biological clock, but I have a metaphorical biological clock and that's close enough.
我知道我是一个男孩，我不可能拥有生理时钟，但是我有一个足够亲密的隐藏着的生物钟。
"Living pigments" is a metaphorical device to refer to the fact that the pigments of the original paint have been replaced by pigmented micro-organisms.
“活颜料”是个比喻，意味着绘制岩画最初使用的颜料已被画作表面微生物取代。
But the lanes are protected from motor vehicles by a line of white paint-a largely metaphorical barrier that many drivers ignore and police do not vigorously enforce.
通道上的一条白色油漆线保护了自行车不被机动车撞到，但这条线在很大程度上只起着象征意义，因为许多司机根本不在乎这条线并且警察也不严格执行保护自行车的措施。
The form of color words has a metonymic and metaphorical basis in cognition.
其中复合法和转化法的构词方式是以认知的隐喻和转喻为基础的。
The official Bioshock 2 website not only unveils the game's new features, it also reveals a glimpse inside the mind of a Big Sister, albeit in a metaphorical way.
生化奇兵2官方网站不仅推出了游戏的新功能，尽管它也揭示了隐喻方式里面的一个大姐姐心灵一瞥。
The class spent 15 minutes teasing out the metaphorical meaning of a line about "places with no carpet on the floor."
为了弄清“没铺地毯的地方”一句里的隐义，整堂课光讨论就花去了15分钟。
Metaphorical language is secondary and it is only a surface representation of metaphorical thinking.
语言是第二位的，隐喻性语言只是隐喻性概念的表层实现形式。
Other people say no, no, Paul's talking metaphorically when he talks about sin in these words, and we need to see sin not at this actual hypostatized being but simply a metaphor, a metaphorical being.
其他人则说，不，保罗在比喻，当他说到罪恶时，不能把罪恶看作实在的生命，只是一个比喻，一个比喻之物。
On turning right, you find yourself facing a double height room with a metaphorical window and words in Shakespearean English adorned on the wall.
向右转，你会发现自己面向一个双层高的空间，有着隐喻的窗口和在墙上的莎士比亚式的英语词汇装饰。
Metaphorical language is a surface manifestation of metaphorical thinking.
语言中的隐喻表达是隐喻性思维的表层体现。
In the eyes of many, pragmatic inference has often been seen as a subject that defies formal characterizations and is describable only in non-formal, sometimes metaphorical terms.
许多语用学家认为语用推理无法用形式系统来刻画，只能用非形式的甚至是隐喻性的语汇来描述。
In the eyes of many, pragmatic inference has often been seen as a subject that defies formal characterizations and is describable only in non-formal, sometimes metaphorical terms.
许多语用学家认为语用推理无法用形式系统来刻画，只能用非形式的甚至是隐喻性的语汇来描述。
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