But the Valley stands on ground that is as unstable, seismically and metaphorically, as it was in the earlier bust. Another bubble-this time, not of the Valley's making-has burst.

但同时硅谷也站在一个不稳定的、地震多发同时极富象征性的基础之上：正如先前泡沫破裂之时一样，目前另外一个泡沫——当然不是硅谷制造的——也破裂了。

youdao

We have understood this in purely linguistic terms as language but we can I think metaphorically speaking understand it now as well as a kind of speech.

从纯语言学角度讲，这就被称之为语言，但我想，打个比喻，我们还可以在此将其理解一种话语。

youdao

Other people say no, no, Paul's talking metaphorically when he talks about sin in these words, and we need to see sin not at this actual hypostatized being but simply a metaphor, a metaphorical being.

其他人则说，不，保罗在比喻，当他说到罪恶时，不能把罪恶看作实在的生命，只是一个比喻，一个比喻之物。

youdao

But only metaphorically is America a family, its members bound by tendrils of intimacy and affection.

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The music died when the first results came into Romney HQ in Boston - not metaphorically, but literally, as the jazz band that had been serenading Republicans stopped playing.

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But that was only metaphorically.

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