Metaphorically speaking, " You're gonna need a bigger boat."

打个比方说，“你需要一艘更大的船。”

You know, the soundtrack is the same, and I'm not speaking metaphorically here. I'm speaking literally.

配乐是一样的，这并不是比。就是字面意思。

Our sadness gets, to put it metaphorically, lost in the crowd.

打个比方，也就是说我们的伤心将消失在海之中。

You said something's really funny and kills you metaphorically.

你说了件特别好笑的事，简直笑死了（夸张比的说法）。

Today, again, it seems like the world is on fire, literally and metaphorically.

今天，无论是字面上还是上看，世界似乎同样深陷火海。

And a headache is, metaphorically, something that causes you a lot of problems.

" headache" 地指会给你带来很多问题的事物。

Now, in the story, tackle is used metaphorically.

在这篇报道中，tackle 使用的是比含义。

So, metaphorically speaking, it can be about including ideas in places they don't belong.

所以，打个比方来说，这个短语可以用来形容把一些想法放到不合适的地方。

And metaphorically for industries ranging from steelmaking to pharmaceuticals, which use it in their processes.

就像，钢铁业到制药业，这些行业在其生产过程中都要使用氧气。因此氧气的世界市场很大。

In the beginning, everything is steeped in secrecy, and slowly the characters share their secrets and in the process move from darkness to lightness, metaphorically, but also in the case of Colin, quite literally.

一开始，一切都笼罩在秘密之中，随着故事的发展，角色们逐渐分享他们的秘密，在这个过程中，他们黑暗走向光明，上讲，当然也包括 Colin，他的转变是字面上的。

He's just dancing on his own and there's something metaphorically that I love about that.

他就在跳舞，这首歌里面有一些性的东西我很喜欢。

That is both literally and metaphorically a positive feedback loop.

无论是直观还是含的角度看，这都是一个正反馈循环。

Because they asked, metaphorically speaking, how many geometric shapes do you see on the screen?

打个比方 他们只会问 你在屏幕上看到多少个几何图案?

Oil has always been a dirty business, both literally and metaphorically.

石油一直是一个肮脏的行业，无论是字面上还是比意义上看都是如此。

And he says, metaphorically, states have grabbed the oars.

他还打了个比方说，各州已经抓住了船桨。

What? ! I think metaphorically. But he was in the bathroom for a while.

什么？！我猜他可能只是打个比方。但他刚真进了厕所好一会呢。

You could take this literally and metaphorically, by the way.

顺便说一句，你可以字面上和上理解这一点。

She was, literally and metaphorically, in perfect shape.

【metaphorical】她身材窈窕，身体健康。

The maneuver did not succeed as well as she expected, however, for though just in the act of setting fire to a funeral pyre, the Professor dropped his torch, metaphorically speaking, and made a dive after the little blue ball.

可惜这个伎俩并不如她预计的那样成功，因为教授就在像要点燃一个火葬堆时掉了他的火把一样，扑下去拣那个蓝色绒线小球。

While, metaphorically, I encourage every woman to find her voice, I'm dismayed at how low it can go.

打个比，尽管我鼓励所有女士都能找到自己的声音，但是我还是惊奇于它还能有多低。