metaphorically

And you thought I was speaking metaphorically.

你认为我是在打比喻。

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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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Put something on the road that metaphorically we can all follow.

把这个东西放在路上，我们都能够追随。

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What is terrifying is the risk of humiliation, of metaphorically falling flat on one's face.

人们怕的是丢脸的风险, 就好像摔个嘴啃泥那样脸面尽失.

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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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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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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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Occupy a place or location, also metaphorically.

占领一个地方或者位置，比喻性的。

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Make dirty or spotty; also used metaphorically.

变灰暗或有斑点；也用作隐喻性的。

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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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Major-league teams play in ballparks ; minor league teams play, metaphorically, "out in the bushes" away from big cities.

大球联的队在棒球场里打球，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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She expressed herself metaphorically.

她隐讳地表达了自己的感情.

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An grand and imposing entrance ( often extended metaphorically).

一个非常豪华和壮丽的入口（多用于隐喻义）。

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This idiom is nowadays used to indicate metaphorically halting an attack or ceasing all activities.

“偃旗息鼓”这个成语现在用来比喻停止攻击或者事情中止.

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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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Thus, lotus image is the beauty's symble and picking lotus poems reveal the love of beauty metaphorically.

采莲诗的运用和荷花的描写构成一种对应的结构，是朱自清潜意识的表现形式：荷花意象是美人的象征，而采莲诗则隐喻了对美人的爱欲。

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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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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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BR: And, metaphorically, the same thing may be happening politically.

比尔: 做个比喻的话, 同样的事情可能会发生在政治范围内.

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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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It is context and convention that determine whether a term will be interpreted literally or metaphorically.

对一个词的理解是按字面意思还是隐喻的意思要视乎上下文和习惯.

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Visser's theory that the teaching of metaphorically extended meanings of a new word can enhance deep processing.

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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Metaphorically it implied a sort of admirable energy.

从比喻来讲,它含有一种令人赞许的能量的意思.

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Hold this bowl for a moment , please; also metaphorically: A crazy idea took hold of him.

拿着这只碗一会儿; 他手里拿着一本书.

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We understand the future belongs to those who can metaphorically surf.

我们懂得未来将属于那些能够冲浪的人。

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Metaphorically, for the world, China is like a girl who is attractive enough, but still have a lot of issues they have to communicate before they get down to that road.

做个比喻，对于世界其它国家，中国就像一个足够吸引人的女孩子，但是在走向（婚姻）的那条路上，她仍然有很多的问题需要与之互相沟通。

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Structural metaphors imply how one concept is metaphorically structuring one concept in terms of another.

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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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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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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But now businesses are being urged to keep metaphorically clean, too.

但现在企业还必须保持隐喻意义上的卫生.

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