| 词汇 | example_english_metaphorically |
| 释义 | Examples of metaphoricallyThese 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. Moreover, human individuals and institutions "invest," metaphorically, or even literally, in other individuals or institutions to enhance their own returns. We thus metaphorically refer to this kind of movement as 'agnostic' movement. In principle, this applies to all specialist terms, including those which become de-terminologized by being used metaphorically or less precisely in standard usage. Metaphorically, there is no transportation of properties across the (sortal) gulf that separates the two domains. They appear to believe they are speaking scientifically, not metaphorically, and that their words have some natural meaning that does not require explanation. Yet, the final phrase may only refer metaphorically to the bullying character of the asylum's punitive measures. A number of cases are reasonably described metaphorically as the reading of a virtual document, differing in the kind of document envisaged. We can think of backlash metaphorically as a bungee cord that snaps when stretched too far. Incense is the resin or sap or, metaphorically, the "blood" of trees. At the same time silence was metaphorically conflated with chastity and speech with wantonness. Snowprints for flute, cello, piano, electronics and video explores snow both metaphorically and sonically. Pitting tradition against progress, the difference in their approaches to aging are metaphorically mapped through their ensuing literary disagreement. Its shape (both literally and metaphorically) has varied, and continues to vary, through time. These facts alone allow the term "selection" to be applied metaphorically to the operant case. Their shows have also, literally and metaphorically, always indicated the labour of production and the cost of such dreaming. In pieces using real-time transformations, the electronic part is often metaphorically compared with a shade following its master more or less faithfully. The entire performance process leads to what we could metaphorically designate as the black spot of the gaze. A person's good moral character is ìwàrere, and it metaphorically connects with inner beauty but not physical beauty. Explicit definitions would avoid assumptions in the modeling process, captured metaphorically as "loans" and "mortgages" in the psychology literature. He believes that these are metaphorically represented in the physical and verbal exchanges over the diamonds (80). As a metaphorically mediated enactment of contemporary-religious meaning, this instance of gospel rap is analysed as a forthright yet complex example of structural ambiguity. 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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