在过去几十年中，认知语言学家对于隐喻对英语和中文中情感概念化的作用进行了大量的研究。
During the past decades, cognitive linguists have conducted a great number of researches, which studies on the function of metaphor in the conceptualization of emotions in English and in Chinese.
抽象的情感一般以概念化的隐喻表现出来。
Emotions are conceptualized and expressed in metaphorical terms.
这些研究主要表明了，人类的情感是抽象的，但是它们又通过隐喻和转喻来进行概念化和表达。
These studies demonstrate that "human emotions, which are abstract in nature, are largely conceptualized and expressed in metaphorical terms."
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