In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.

诗中通常作为爱的象征。

So I like this tree metaphor here.

我很喜欢这个树的隐喻。

Like is common in conversation in comparative metaphors; as is still used in conversation, but it's more frequent in written English.

like是个常用语谈话中的单词，一般用于比较；as也会被使用语口语聊天中，但是更多的是用于书面表达。

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，对无神论者一样重要。

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

既引起我们的兴趣，又为的整个演讲建立一个包罗万象的隐喻。

Historians have often considered the sugar-as-a-drug metaphor to be an apt one.

历史学家们通常认为“就像毒品”的比喻是恰当的。

Couple of wavy lines, little boat could be a metaphor to represent we're all in this together.

几条波浪线，小船象征着我们大家都里面。

Yeah, I mean, as much as a weather metaphor makes sense, my mind is often feels like a very wild storm.

是的，我的意思是，就像用天气来比喻一样，我的思想就像是一场狂风暴雨。

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。

Although I did find the fences metaphor a little mundane.

但我觉得里面栅栏的比喻略俗。

She probably could have picked a better metaphor.

她可能应该学着用个更好点的比喻。

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各种解决争论的方案。

There is something about water that makes it a good metaphor for life.

水有一些品质让成为有关生命的好比喻。

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

作者Majmudar先生也是一个诗人，短语和隐喻混合着调味品的温暖，弥漫字里行间。

I’m using the techniques of hyperbole, in the case of obliteration, and metaphor, in the case of my broken heart, to try to describe the things that are happening inside of me.

消失那部分，我用夸张手法，心碎的部分，我用暗喻，去尝试形容我心里的想法。

The traditional metaphor for careers is a ladder, but I no longer think that metaphor holds. It just doesn't make sense in a less hierarchical world.

职业发展通常会被比作“爬阶梯”。但我认为这个比喻不再恰当。越来越扁平的世界里，这种说法是没有意义的。

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着一种联系，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。

Spring is a fitting metaphor for that time when you begin to understand, and to recognize the version of yourself, you are becoming, like a plant emerging from the ground, and beginning to bud.

春天恰好隐喻着这样一个阶段：你开始慢慢看清，慢慢认出那个正蜕变的自己，如同破土而出的新芽，含苞待放。

And finally for important public buildings, the architect may also be looking for a central symbolic idea on which to base the design, a sort of metaphor for the building and the way in which it is used.

最后一点，对于很重要的公共建筑，建筑师也许还要寻找一个代表性的中心思想，以此作为设计的基础，有点像这栋建筑和它的用途的比喻。