By present tense we are referring to something that is occurring now.

现在时用来表示现在正在发生的事情。

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A metaphor is an imaginative way of describing something by referring to something else which is the same in a particular way.

隐喻是通过叙述另一件在某方面与之有共同点的事物来描写某件事物的富有想象力的描写的方式。

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Let's acknowledge them and move on. But when I say I admire your looks, I'm referring to something else - how comfortable you seem with yourself.

但是当我说我很欣赏你的长相，我指的是其他的一些东西—你看去上去是那么的让人舒服。

youdao

But these days she is referring to something else.

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Referring to it as "something that happened and it is what it is, " Williams doesn't believe it will be a distraction to his play on the field.

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"I honestly found it hard to go a couple of hours without seeing something, " he said, referring to criminal activity.

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