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。

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In addition, LOVE metonymy and metaphor are found to be interactive with each other at the conceptual and contextual levels rather than mutually exclusive.

另外，“爱情”转喻、隐喻不是相互排斥的，而是在概念、语境层面互相作用与影响的。

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Metaphor in rhetoric, metaphorical thinking and similar thinking are three levels of accounting for language and world.

隐喻是一种认知现象，是语言系统的再生机制，语言隐喻本质上是隐喻思维在语言中的表现。

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Estelle Morris may regret using the political world's favourite metaphor about A-levels - that they are the "gold standard" which "mustn't be devalued".

BBC: Thursday 19 September

Indeed, cannibalism continues to be read on many levels as a metaphor for Brazilian art.

ECONOMIST: Brazilian art