| 词汇 | example_english_metaphorical |
| 释义 | Examples of metaphoricalThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Some students might benefit from explicit attention to the analogical relationships of the literal to the metaphorical elements. In the first place, it is unlikely that sensory information can be moved to a focus of attention except in a metaphorical sense. Specifially, those beliefs or assertions which are purely expressive, metaphorical, or whose truth value cannot be determined. It has been suggested to me that one important aspect of subjective progressives is that they tend to involve metaphorical uses of verbs. Once again, a great deal is made to hang on a rather slender metaphorical reed. Often it is precisely the metaphorical 'seeds' produced during the maturity of the preceding period that are thought to generate the new period's growth. Not merely meant for looking through, then, this metaphorical window is the matrix through which space is projected and/or imagined. The three metaphorical transformations are audible through the layers of observable musical elements to which they give rise: materials, expression, form and value. These projects were not conceived as metaphorical critiques. This was mirrored in the metaphorical association of old age with wisdom and experience - the latter being one of the fundamental signifiers of old age. The apparent dichotomy between metaphorical and logical reasoning is here bridged. Such problems supported the conclusion that past and present kinship groups, recreated through the systematic application of kinship rules, were more metaphorical than substantive. The idiomatic interpretations of both of these expressions are metaphorical extensions of their literal, military interpretations. Perhaps this overemphasis on literal images inadvertently discouraged metaphorical responses. Much has been written about the metaphorical and philosophical reasons for their stasis, their inability to leave. And it is suggested that such conceptual schemes are nonlinguistic in character, receiving expression in metaphorical language rather than being reflections of it. We might, however, make it a metaphorical war by adopting the all-out, extirpating approach discussed above. 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. As they put it, metaphorical switches "allow for the enactment of two or more different relationships among the same set of individuals" (1972:425). This has had important consequences for the metaphorical underground as well. Like metaphorical genitives, generic genitives behave structurally like determiner genitives, but semantically like descriptive genitives (with respect to their nonspecific dependent). Within the category of descriptive genitives, she further distinguishes three types, viz. classifying genitives, generic genitives and metaphorical genitives (2006: 92). Talk of "binding ontologies together," or of the metaphysician's "universal glue" is unabashedly metaphorical. Through such metaphorical comparisons, white-collar masculinity was, then, at once energised and enervated. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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