Confession is a bad metaphor for what those poets did.

忏悔录并不能很好地比喻那些诗人的所作所为。

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There is something about water that makes it a good metaphor for life.

水的某些特质使它成为生命的一个很好的隐喻。

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The divided family remains a powerful metaphor for a society that continued to tear itself apart.

破裂的家庭仍然是一个持续分裂的社会的有力象征。

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Writer-director Cameron also acknowledges that what the humans try to do on the fictional Pandora is a clear metaphor for what he believes are the dangers of exploitation on our own planet;

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But a few verses later it's clear that the poet isn't really drowning: this is a metaphor for his difficult situation.

但是随后的几首诗证明了，诗人并没有真正的溺水：,这里的水象征着困境。

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And the metaphor for that relationship is a metaphor of struggle, or wrestling.

对这种关系的比喻是,是搏斗和摔跤的角逐。

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They don't intend to market the dress, but see it as a "metaphor for wastefulness, " says Ryan.

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The bill's acronym as a metaphor for the reins on a horse is fitting.

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The appropriate metaphor for spectrum in the 21st century is the ocean, not real estate.

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