我认为这是一个重要的区别，因为在弥尔顿对地狱的描述中，这个比喻的中间，是一个凉亭的形象。

I think this is an important distinction because what in the middle of this simile in Milton's account of hell is an image of a bower.

youdao

用比喻的方式，并列的术语隐含着它们所指称的存在的具体或本质的特征，引入了一种诗歌的模式作为习惯性的表达形式。

Used metaphorically, the juxtaposed terms connote specific or essential traits of the being they refer to, introducing a mode of poetry as an almost habitual form of expression.

youdao

这里是混合比喻的重要性。

This is the significance of mixed metaphors.

youdao

And it's this final movement of the simile, according to this ingenious argument by Geoffrey Hartman, that Hartman calls the counter-plot.

根据哈特曼灵巧的论点看来，这就是这个比喻最后的深意，他称之为反计。

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It's a set of images that couldn't be more foreign or more alien to the prophetic mode of the Old Testament prophets.

这是一组不能再背离旧约先知的形象的,一组比喻了。

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Yeats sees the Second Coming as an image, as a myth, an idea, a metaphor, a certain stylistic arrangement of experience.

叶芝把第二次降临看成一个意向，一个神话，一个意识，一个比喻，一种诗意的安排和感受。

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