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比喻
Metaphor
The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?
漫画实际上是一个隐喻，在我们痴迷名人的文化中，几乎不可能改变流派，改变你的想法，改变你的脸，你知道吗?
I would suggest, merely as a metaphor here, but also as the basis for a scientific program to investigate the computational capacity of the universe, that this is also a reasonable explanation for why the universe is complex.
我想说的是，这只是一个比喻，但也是一个科学程序的基础来研究宇宙的计算能力，这也是一个合理的解释为什么宇宙是复杂的。
The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.
我用的比喻是……很快就会有人把我的家人推下悬崖，我不会去救他们的。这让我很伤心。但我有一些时间缝一些网来缓冲秋天。所以，我可以蜷缩在一个球里哭泣，或者我可以去网队工作。
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The river is a metaphor for life in general, ... all the bullshit that you deal with from being a kid growing up. The whole thing's just about life and death.
总的来说，这条河象征着生命……你小时候处理的那些屁话。整件事就是生死攸关的。
In this metaphor we actually have a picture of the computational universe, a metaphor which I hope to make scientifically precise as part of a research program.
在这个比喻中，我们实际上有一幅计算宇宙的图画，我希望这个比喻在科学上是精确的，作为一个研究项目的一部分。
They say the eyes are the window to the soul.
有人说眼睛是心灵的窗户。
In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy.
近几十年来，这种象征性或隐喻性的歌词已经让位于转喻。
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。
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。