"Dogs that are very bonded to their handlers can witness when, if you are looking into someone's eyes and 'the lights go out' metaphorically speaking.

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We sometimes put it: the soul is in the body, though talking about spatial locations here may be somewhat metaphorically intended.

我们有时认为,灵魂在身体内,在谈论空间地点时,也许会暗示着某种隐喻

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Put something on the road that metaphorically we can all follow.

把这个东西放在路上,我们都能够追随。

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So I don't just mean it metaphorically, I also very often mean it literally.

所以我不只是在打比方，我也经常指的是字面意义。

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And in Strauss in attempting to do this will use the orchestra to depict here in this particular case perhaps the rise of human power, maybe as metaphorically represented by the sun, so here is Strauss depicting the rise of the sun.

施特劳斯试着用管弦乐,以特别的方式表现人类力量的崛起,用太阳隐喻人类的力量,所以在这里施特劳斯表现了,太阳的升起

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So Collins suggests that the poem in Exodus 15 is celebrating and preserving a historical memory of an escape from or a defeat of Pharaoh and that the drowning image is used metaphorically as it is elsewhere in Hebrew poetry to describe the Egyptians' humiliation and defeat.

所以Collins，指出在《出埃及记》15中的诗中,是对逃脱或者打败法老统治的这一历史性时刻的庆祝,溺水这一画面被赋予象征意义，就像犹太诗中,经常出现描写埃及人被打败被侮辱的场景一样。

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A seed,a strength,a virtue,a competence that other teachers did not see, because they did not ask this question; because they asked,metaphorically speaking, ?" "how many geometric shapes do you see on the screen?"

潜能，优点，品德，能力,这些是其他老师没看到的，因为他们没提出这个问题;,打个比方，他们只会问，“你在屏幕上看到多少个几何图案“

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So what we are doing: we cultivate the positive; we are strengthening our,metaphorically speaking, " psychological "engine"; and we are better able to deal with the negative to zero, not to mention the fact that we are also able to become happier.

所以我们在做的是，培养积极性;,按那个比喻来说，我们正在增强，心理“引擎;,我们能够更好将负值转化为零，更别说还能变得更快乐。

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