So I like this tree metaphor here.

我很喜欢这个树的隐喻。

However, as a metaphor for why the world is in a mess, it has a beguiling poetic truth, as relevant to atheists as believers.

然而，作为解释为什么世界如此混乱的隐喻，它拥有迷人的诗意真理，对无神论者样重要。

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

今天，无论是从字面上还是隐喻上看，世界似乎同样深陷火海。

He both engaged our interest and set up an overarching metaphor for his entire speech.

既引起了我们的兴趣，又为的整个演讲建立了个包罗万象的隐喻。

Its preservative properties made it an apt metaphor for permanence and conviction.

它的防腐特性使它成为永久和信念的恰当隐喻。

Facebook is more or less a metaphor for social media, texting, and technology.

Facebook 差不多就是社交媒体、短信和电子产品的隐喻。

Although this does not sound like a particularly rich image, a metaphor can communicate so much about a particular image that poets use them more than any other type of figurative language.

然这个隐喻听起来并不是特别生动，但是隐喻可以充分传递某个特定意象的信息，因此，成为最受诗人们青睐的修辞手法。

Preach. And as an added bonus, the word " touche" comes from fencing. It would be our only opportunity to use it in a nonmetaphorical sense.

同意, 而且有个加分项, " 针见血" 这词原是击剑中得分之意, 是我们不带隐喻地使用这词的地方。

Um, I think the argument-as-war metaphor inhibits those other kinds of resolutions to argumentation.

我觉得，将辩论看作战争这个隐喻排除了其各种解决争论的方案。

Fragments of hair and Malevich's fingerprints are also ingrained in the paint, adding both metaphorical and literal texture to the work.

散落的头发和马列维奇的指印也嵌在颜料中，为作品增添了隐喻和文字的质感。

Mr Majmudar, who is also a poet, imbues his prose with phrases and metaphors that linger with the warmth of spices.

作者Majmudar先生也是个诗人，短语和隐喻混合着调味品的温暖，弥漫在字里行间。

Toxic has truly taken off into the realm of metaphor as people have reached for the word to describe workplaces, schools, cultures, relationships and stress, lending a personal angle to this year of toxicity.

这个词被用于隐喻，用来形容工作场所、学校、文化、人际关系和压力，为这个词增加了个人色彩。

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's a connection between the individual sport of like cross country, of pushing yourself, as a metaphor for her pushing herself in the classroom, pushing herself in the community.

像越野赛这样的个人运动之间存在着种联系，就是推动自己，隐喻来说就像把自己推到教室里，把自己推到社区里。

There was criticized at one point by certain snobby critics saying, " And that's the level of the metaphor of the film. Hell, you know."

某些势利的影评人曾批评道：“这就是这部电影的隐喻——地狱。”

When a simile or metaphor doesn't work, the results are sometimes funny and sometimes embarrassing.

如果比喻或者隐喻说不到点子上，结果有时会滑稽可笑，有时会令人难堪。

The train really was the perfect visual metaphor.

火车真的是个完美的视觉隐喻。

This metaphor of solitude could be seen as a form of unconventional self-portrait.

这种孤独的隐喻可以看作是种非常规的自画像。

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

就在跳舞，这首歌里面有些隐喻性的东西我很喜欢。

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.

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

Natural metaphors for a rarefied elite, islands also thrust characters into inescapable proximity.

岛屿是种自然隐喻，象征着遗世独立的精英阶层，同时也让剧中的人物不可避免地彼此接近。