After six Eurostar trains broke down in or near the tunnel that runs under the English Channel, the system has been suspended while engineers troubleshoot the electrical problems thought to have been brought on by condensation.

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It's there that Freud argues that really the central two mechanisms of the dream work are condensation and displacement.

就是在这本书中，弗洛伊德认为，梦运作的两大艺匠,是梦的“凝缩“和“移置“

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So displacement is a kind of delay or detour of understanding, and condensation, on the other hand, is a kind of distillation of understanding.

所以“移置“是一种滞后的，迂回的理解，而另一方面，“凝缩“,则是理解的提炼过程。

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Condensation, in other words, is metaphorical in its nature, and displacement is metonymic in its nature.

换句话说，凝缩本质上是比喻，移置本质上是转喻。

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