What I love about this metaphor is how it works on two levels.

我喜欢这个比喻的原因是它在两个不同的层面同样适用。

youdao

So is "Gravity is Love" a good metaphor?

“引力是爱情”，这是个好的比喻吗？

youdao

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。

youdao

My own best guess about the asymmetry of parental love lies in a metaphor borrowed from the sciences.

BBC: A Point of View: The pain when children fly the nest

By then, the game had changed character and become an allegory of society and, increasingly, a metaphor of love.

ECONOMIST: Women in chess

But he ends up so far from this theme that a potentially glorious scene, a sermon on water as a metaphor for love in the mission church of St Xavier del Bac, becomes an aside in a chapter about junk food and barrios.

ECONOMIST: Travels in the desert