由于中西方文化的差异，颜色词的中西方引申比喻含义也各不相同。

Due to the cultural difference between East and West, the extended or metaphoric of the colors are very different.

youdao

这样的比喻是什么含义？

What does this simile mean?

youdao

若想使用拥塞作为比喻，我建议先定义其真正含义。

If you're going to use a congestion metaphor, I'd suggest defining what that means.

youdao

They always mean or signify far more than they're supposed to if their job is simply to make a comparison.

他们总是比简单的完成一个比喻,而一位或者代表了更多的深层含义。

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And what's interesting is that if you look at the utopian rhetoric it almost always includes hints of this utopian relationship to schooling.

有意思的是,如果你了解乌托邦这一修辞比喻,其含义常常包括,与教育的乌托邦一般的关系的暗示性信息。

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