In both its original and typical usage it is meant metaphorically to refer to issues of fame or status, but it may also be used literally to refer to cumulative advantage of economic capital.

在其本原和通常的用法中，喻指声誉和地位的问题，但是它在字面上也可用来指经济资本的累积优势。

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Marx's freedom concept on the press was used metaphorically then not only meaning freedom of the press but also the whole freedom kingdom.

马克思的新闻自由观在当时的隐喻不仅仅是新闻自由，而是争取整个的自由。

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This is our most basic performance of a point, is also often used metaphorically.

这是我们最能基本表现的一个点，现亦常用于比喻。

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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