Chapter 1 is a review of the theory of conceptual metaphor including that of the Event Structure metaphor, and a review of previous studies on metaphor in economic discourse.

第一章是对概念隐喻理论包括事件结构隐喻的回顾，以及对经济语篇隐喻研究的概述。

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People knew time was an abstract conception through other conceptions of concrete images. Ontological metaphors, orientational metaphors and structure metaphor were the main ways of time metaphor.

人们通过其他具体形象的概念来认知时间这一抽象概念，实体隐喻、空间隐喻和结构隐喻是时间隐喻的主要方法。

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As I said before an assertion a statement of truth an assertion of any kind is the utterance of a metaphor because the deep structure of any assertion is that a is b.

正如我之前所说，一个表判断句子，是一种对事实的陈述，一切表示判断的句子说出口后都变成了隐喻，因为所有的判断句的实质结构为，甲是乙。

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Every sentence is a predication, and if every sentence is a predication, it also has the structure of a metaphor; and the metaphor in a sentence and the predication in a sentence are always going to be at odds.

每句话都是一句声明，而如果每句话都是一句声明得话，它同样也有隐喻的结构，而一个句子中的隐喻,和句子中的声明总会有分歧。

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To condense his subject into manageable chunks, Mr Winchester uses Shakespeare's seven ages of man as a structure: the infant is a metaphor for man's first interest in the ocean, the schoolboy represents its exploration, and so on.

ECONOMIST: The Atlantic Ocean