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It's a very figurative name.

这个叫法倒是很形象.

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He imprisoned her, in a figurative sense.

在比喻的意义上,他把她关在牢里了.

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No one was doing realistic figurative art other than cowboys and Indians.

没有人正在做牛仔和印第安人之外的现实比喻的艺术.

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To facilitate figurative understanding of this chapter for the control of the results of visual programming.

为了便于进行形象化的理解,本章进行了控制结果的可视化编程.

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Similar and similarity surplus are a pair of chief categories of figurative thinking.

相似和相似剩余是形象思维的一对主要思维范畴.

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What is the function of the figurative use of language?

语言的比喻用法的功能是什么?

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Additionally, this paper also discussed the domestic responses for new figurative painting from china.

此外, 本文还探讨了来自中国本土对新具象绘画的回应.

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This figurative habit of his mind crippled his judgement.

他思想上的这种爱好比喻的习惯,削弱了他的判断能力.

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I know we need to wean you from Harvard in a figurative sense.

虽然我们会把你们比作已经从哈佛断奶的孩子们,但我从没想到会这么彻底.

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At the same time, all this diverse material is unified and made mysteriously figurative.

与此同时, 所有这些多种多样的质料都得到统一,获得了神秘的形象.

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St. John's eyes, though clear enough a literal sense, a figurative one were difficult to fathom.

圣约翰的眼睛, 虽然就表面的意义来说,是够明净的, 可是就比喻的意义来说,却是难以探测的.

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It is no less figurative than metaphor.

它的修辞性不比隐喻少.

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This is a fine poem with many figurative expressions.

这是一首好诗,其中有很多比喻.

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The word in the sentence is used figuratively or in a transferred sense.

这个词在句子中是转义.

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Notice in this sentence the word is used figuratively a transferred sense.

注意在这个句子中这个词是转义.

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The upfront work is the secret to a million-dollar business and figuratively.

这是渐渐变成拥有百万资产的大企业的秘密.

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The word is used figuratively in the context.

这字在此上下文中做比喻用.

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Employees will be, figuratively speaking, in the driver's seat.

打个比方,雇员将会坐在驾驶座上, 即取得主动权.

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English speakers like to use the word neck figuratively.

英国人喜欢用“颈”字作比喻.

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I know I'll spend time in Tennessee and mend some fences, literally and figuratively.

我也会在家乡田纳西州修补一下篱笆 -- 真实的和象征的篱笆.

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