The thesis is based on George Lakoff's Conceptual Metaphor Theory, and tries to analyze the metaphorical expressions of time both in English and Chinese.

本文依据概念隐喻理论，分析了中英两种语言中有关时间的隐喻表达。

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Traditional stories make use of formulaic expressions like 'Once upon a time...'.

传统故事采用“从前…”一类的套语。

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The nodes have a wide range of options for applying and parsing sequences, including literal values, expressions calculated from an XPath predicate, and sequences bounded by a given length of time.

节点包含许多用于应用和解析序列的选项，包括字面值、来自 XPath 谓词的表达式计算和特定时间长度内的序列。

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Every week at this time, the Voice of America tells about popular words and expressions used in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

Most of the time, we're going to be doing expressions inside of some piece of code, inside of a script, which is the Python word for program.

大多数情况下，我们会在一些代码内部,写一些表达式，在一个脚本里面，也就是Python里面对程序的另一种叫法。

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The book uses the racist expressions of its time.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

When the Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions came into force in 2007, for this first time in modern history, the right of states to adopt policies to protect and promote their cultural expressions was affirmed in an international legal instrument.

UNESCO: UK National Commission for UNESCO :: Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005)

But these public expressions have not, by the time of this writing, at the end of 2006, yielded a sufficient international response.

NPR: Sudan Sanctions: Too Little, Too Late?

In particular, the performance of some cultural expressions in a different space or time than that which corresponds to the tradition can lose all its significance for the local communities concerned.

UNESCO: Outline of Digital Archiving Project