Hold this bowl for a moment, please; also metaphorically: a crazy idea took hold of him.

拿着这只碗一会儿；他手里拿着一本书。

youdao

Or I am speaking metaphorically-that might also help.

或者我换一种方式说，这也有帮助。

youdao

From the cognitive perspective, synaesthesia is also a kind of metaphor, and it embodies metaphorically cognitive and thinking processes.

从认知的视角看，通感又是一种隐喻，同样包含着隐喻性的认知和思维过程。

youdao

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 the Sharia's call for "jihad" - loosely interpreted as Holy War, but which can also be used metaphorically to mean conversion of the unfaithful - was stressed.

BBC: The many faces of Sharia