中国的历史充满着闪烁的隐喻，比较和实例，这些通常有助于阐述当前的事件。

China's history is full of shimmering metaphors, parallels and examples that usually help to throw light on current events.

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而诸如我的祖先来自哪里、过去与现在融为一起的历史以及热带和温带的两重世界，常常不仅仅是作为隐喻出现在我的作品之中。

And things ancestral, where my forebears came from, and history, that past and present melding; and climate, too, tropical and temperate worlds, all sometimes coming togther as more than metaphor.

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违背原因其中之一是因为使用了含文化，社会或历史背景的隐喻。

One cause of this is the use of metaphor with cultural, social or historical background.

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