This metaphor is very appropriate.

这个比喻很贴切。

Confession is a bad metaphor for what those poets did.

忏悔录并不能很好地比喻那些诗人的所作所为。

This is a metaphor used to illustrate this observation.

这是一个用来说明这一观察的隐喻。

Eating is a metaphor that is sometimes used to signify marriage.

“吃”是一个比喻，有时用来表示婚姻。

There is something about water that makes it a good metaphor for life.

水的某些特质使它成为生命的一个很好的隐喻。

A classic metaphor is that a donkey starving between two stacks of hay because of the inability to choose.

一个经典的隐喻是一头驴因为无法做出选择而在两堆干草中间挨饿。

Yeats sees the Second Coming as an image, as a myth, an idea, a metaphor, a certain stylistic arrangement of experience.

叶芝把《第二次降临》看成一个意象、一个神话、一个意识、一个比喻、一种诗意感受的安排。

This proposition, which we term the increasing-disadvantage model, is a core element of the popular glass ceiling metaphor.

这个命题，我们称之为“增长-劣势模式”，是流行的玻璃天花板隐喻的核心元素。

In this metaphor, think about the relationship between the mind and the body as similar to the relationship between harmony and a harp.

这个比喻里，思考一下身心的关系类比于和声与竖琴的关系。

Even some authors who accepted the climax concept rejected Clements' characterization of it as a superorganism, and it is indeed a misleading metaphor.

甚至一些接受高潮概念的作者也反对克莱门茨将其描述为超有机体，而它确实是误导性的比喻。

The vocabulary that we have to wrestle with for today's essay is taken from Jakobson's understanding of the relationship between metaphor and metonymy.

我们今天这篇文章要解决的词汇来源于雅各布森对隐喻和转喻之间关系的理解。

The divided family remains a powerful metaphor for a society that continued to tear itself apart.

破裂的家庭仍然是一个持续分裂的社会的有力象征。

Culture as a root metaphor sees the organization as its culture.

文化作为一个根本的隐喻，将组织视为其文化。

It was originally a metaphor.

这个词最初是一个隐喻。

Metaphor is a powerful thing.

隐喻是强大的。

If a metaphor helps, use one.

如果比喻有帮助的话，那么就使用一个。

So I like this tree metaphor here.

所以我比较喜欢这样的树的比喻。

WHEN argument fails, try metaphor.

争论无用之时，试用比喻。

Sorry for the disgusting metaphor.

对不起用了这样讨厌的比喻。

It's a terrible metaphor.

一个糟糕的比喻！

And he did so using a tech metaphor.

他在这里用了一个科技隐喻。

Let the metaphor guide your solution.

让比喻来指导您的解决方案。

We have to ask which metaphor is prior.

我们要问哪个比喻是主要的。

When you use metaphor, do not mix it up.

你用隐喻时，前后不能混为一谈。

So is "Gravity is Love" a good metaphor?

“引力是爱情”，这是个好的比喻吗？

The metaphor extends to all of chemistry.

这个隐喻扩展到化学的所有领域。

IBM metaphor into more than an afterthought.

IBM的比喻演化成一个事后产生的想法。

It's a metaphor.

这只是个比喻。