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 ingesting.

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与新型智能技术相适应的过程亦反映在我们解释自身的那些比喻当中。

The process of adapting to new intellectual technologies is reflected in the changing metaphors we use to explain ourselves to ourselves.

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我认为把我关于SOA的看法的演变过程比喻为“探求”是相当贴切的，而且“探求”也解释了我对治理的愿景与业界流行看法不同的原因。

I think Quest serves as a perfect metaphor for the evolution of my views on SOA and sheds some light on why my vision of Governance differs from those prevailing in the industry.

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Metaphor is the bringing together in a statement of identity of the discourse that's attempting to articulate itself.

比喻就是表述,试图自我阐明交谈特点的过程。

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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.

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。

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