So I like this tree metaphor here.

我很喜欢这个树的隐喻。

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

他既引起了我们的兴趣，又为他的整个演讲建立了一个包罗万象的隐喻。

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。

Well, she says it's a form of metaphor.

她说那是一隐喻。

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了其他各解决争论的方案。

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。

A metaphor is a way of describing something.

隐喻是描述某事物的一方式。

No, I meant, you're a star, is an example of a metaphor.

不，我的意思是，" 你是个明星" 是个隐喻的例子。

Using metaphorical, poetic language, he says they linger above our letters.

用隐喻性、富有诗意的语言，他说它们停留在字母之上。

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

" headache" 隐喻地指会给你带来很的事物。

No, no, I meant, you're a star, is an example of a metaphor.

不，我的意思是，你是个明星，这是隐喻的例子。

And then to use the language that's a mixture of concrete language, metaphor and emotion.

然后使用语言，一具体语言、隐喻和情感的混合物。

Or maybe you prefer a biological metaphor—the motherboard, you might have heard of that.

或者也许你更喜欢生物学隐喻——你应该听说过的，主板。

So, it might metaphorically make that sound — a groan.

所以，隐喻意义上它可能会发出那声音——叹息。

Yes. So, in the headline, 'carve out', is kind of metaphorical.

是的。所以，在标中，carve out 是一隐喻。

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.

火车真的是一个完美的觉隐喻。

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

这孤独的隐喻可以看作是一非常规的自画像。

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

他就在跳舞，这首歌里面有一些隐喻性的东西我很喜欢。

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

岛屿是一自然隐喻，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。