I'll leave you in Robin's capable hands ─ metaphorically speaking, of course!
我要把你放到罗宾能干的手中——当然,这只是打个比方。
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Minor league teams play, metaphorically, "out in the bushes" away from big cities.
而小球联的队则在大城市外面的灌木丛生的地方打球,当然这只是个比喻。
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Cul-de-sac也用于比喻没有结果或陷入绝境的行动。
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在柔道决赛中观看两名身穿睡袍的金发女子互相要绊倒对方的时候,对同事“使绊”的冲动似乎也减少了许多。
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This is our most basic performance of a point, is also often used metaphorically.
这是我们最能基本表现的一个点,现亦常用于比喻。
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Exchange thoughts; talk with; we often talk business; also used metaphorically.
交换意见;和某人谈话;我们经常就生意上的事情进行交谈;也用于比喻。
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结构隐喻意味着一个概念是以另一个概念隐喻为基础而构建隐喻的。
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Now it is also used metaphorically to refer to feeling incapable of doing something.
现在还用来比喻做一件事情力量不足,感到无可奈何。
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Some researchers say they have that objective, but maybe they are using the phrase metaphorically.
但是他们可能是使用这个措辞来作一种比喻。
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This idiom is used metaphorically to indicate the flawless handling of things.
“天衣无缝”这个成语用来比喻处理事情十分周密,不露一点痕迹。
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But Nietzsche was speaking metaphorically about evolving as a species.
但是那是尼采对进化种类的一种暗喻。
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English is a synthetic language whose words may be metaphorically nominalized by adding suffixes.
英语是综合语型语言,可通过多种方式添加词缀隐喻化为名词。
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Visser关于多义词隐喻义的教学能够促进学习者对词义的深加工的理论。
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Yet the danger is that it may become ( metaphorically, not literally) self-fulfilling.
然而,风险是或许成为(隐喻的,而非书面上的)自我满足。
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