简单说来，概念转喻理论中的转喻源于两个概念实体间的激活。

Simply speaking, conceptual metonymy theory takes origin in the activation of two conceptual entities.

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二是标题有时可以超越语篇宏观结构产生指向篇章外概念实体的参照点效应。

For another thing, at times a discourse title may contain a cognitive reference point that provides access to a target conceptual domain beyond the discourse.

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转喻是在同一理想化认知模型中一个概念实体为另一概念实体提供心理通道的认知操作过程。

Metonymy is a cognitive process in which one conceptual entity provides mental access to another conceptual entity within the same idealized cognitive model.

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Now, it's not my purpose here to try to argue for or against Platonism with regard to abstract entities.

我的目的不是,试图去辩护或者反对,柏拉图哲学中的抽象实体这个概念

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What we're really getting at is the idea of saying I want to have a way of grouping together information into units that make sense. So I can go back to one of those topics we had at the beginning, which is the idea of abstraction, that I can create one of those units as a simple entity, bury away the details and write really modular code.

组合成为有意义的单元,那么这就让我们回到,一开始讲的话题之一了,这就是抽象的概念,也就是我可以以一个简单的，实体的形式创建这样的一个单元，把具体实现隐藏然后写一些,真正模块化的代码,我们在以后的课程中。

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