The simile pushes the size of the spear clean out of our rational comprehension, and it's this process that is, according to Stanley Fish, the point of the simile.

这个比喻对长矛的形容,大大超出了正常的理解范围，对斯坦利费什来说，这恰恰是表达这个比喻的目的的一个过程。

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