“甜美的性情”是一种比喻式的表达，但“甜咖啡”不是。

"The sweet temper" is a figurative expression, but "sweet coffee" is not.

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这样描写很重要，因为这解释了为什么苏格拉底喜欢使用助产式来比喻哲学问题。 他通过向别人提出问题，而不是自己回答问题来获得事物真相。

This is important, for midwifery forms the great metaphor Socrates uses to explain his method of extracting truth through questioning others, rather than giving birth to it himself.

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康拉德式的比喻很适合。

The Conradian imagery is appropriate.

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For Hartman, the Miltonic simile actually permits the reader something like the perspective of eternity, a divine perspective, and of course, this is exactly what Stanley Fish had told us was impossible.

对他而言，弥尔顿式的比喻实际上使得读者能够,得知一些类似于永恒的透视，一个神圣的看法，当然，这是据费什所有，不可能的事情。

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