0 Metaphorical language contains metaphors. -- 使用隐喻的
Her second novel is written in a very metaphorical style. 她的第二部小说中运用了大量隐喻。
A metaphorical ocean (= extremely large area of disagreement) lies between the two groups. 两方之间存在着海洋般巨大的分歧。
There is a danger that America's metaphoric "war on drugs" may turn into a bloody reality. 美国人“向毒品开战”的比喻说法有变成严酷现实的危险。
Much has been written about the metaphorical and philosophical reasons for their stasis, their inability to leave.
This has had important consequences for the metaphorical underground as well.
The idiomatic interpretations of both of these expressions are metaphorical extensions of their literal, military interpretations.
Such problems supported the conclusion that past and present kinship groups, recreated through the systematic application of kinship rules, were more metaphorical than substantive.
Once again, a great deal is made to hang on a rather slender metaphorical reed.
Like metaphorical genitives, generic genitives behave structurally like determiner genitives, but semantically like descriptive genitives (with respect to their nonspecific dependent).
Put simply, a survey which integrates general trends, suspected detail and unsuspected detail enables the metaphorical wood to be seen as well as the trees.
Some students might benefit from explicit attention to the analogical relationships of the literal to the metaphorical elements.
