All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

  • -- G. K. Chesterton 特顿

所有的俚语都是隐喻,所有的隐喻都是诗歌。

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From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, a system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour, and to love your neighbour’s wife.

他们从拜伦勋爵的诗歌中汲取了一套道德体系,由厌世和好色组成,其中的两大戒律是:恨你的邻居,爱你邻居的妻子。

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

我的父母都很文笔,我想用隐喻和艺术来生存,这让我感到非常羞愧。

Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together.

与隐喻不同,转喻并不试图将图像融合在一起。

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine.

爱是我们的象征;爱是你的,爱是我的。