使用隐喻

I tried to find out why thedevelopers of VLC chose it on a traffic cone. The history is quitestrange. It turns out that the developers (students of the cole Centrale Paris ) have a collection of these cones. In honor of this they created the icon.

我研究过为什么VLC的开发者使用这个隐喻，结果是比较奇怪的，因为他的开发者，来自cole Centrale Paris的学生们有收集交通路障的癖好，于是他们就用软件图标来纪念自己的爱好。

He addresses a dismayingly wide variety of subjects, from the heavy-duty (howlanguage is learned, the use of metaphor and the ways in which prepositions andverbs relate to our conceptions of time and space) to the feather-light(fashions in children's names, the conventions of romantic comedy and theseemingly irresistible human impulse to swear).

令人失望的是其所涉及的主题之宽泛，有的复杂而又严肃，比如语言如何习得，隐喻的使用，介词和动词与我们时、空间概念的关联；有的则简单而又轻松，比如小孩取名的时尚、爱情喜剧的惯常套路以及人类似乎无法自已的发誓冲动。

The writer' s primary purpose of employing a series of myth imagoes which symbolize death and represent demon in the hell is to allude to that " deteriorated demonic history" and to expose the evil-ridden and justicevoid society under the rule of German Nazi.

狗年月》中使用了一系列象征死亡、代表地狱魔怪的神话意象，其目的首先在于隐喻那段&沉沦为恶魔的历史&，揭露德国纳粹统治下妖魔横行、暗无天日的社会现实。

This is a book that luxuriates in description and the use of extended metaphor, as Homer did himself.

这本书中，就像《荷马史诗》那样，叙述丰润、厚重，使用了大量隐喻。

O'Reilly comes up with this somewhat technical definition: Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data from multiple sources, including individual users, while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others, creating network effects through an "architecture of participation," and going beyond the page metaphor of Web 1.0 to deliver rich user experiences.

奥赖利来与这有点技术的定义是： Web 2.0是网络为平台，跨越所有连接的设备； Web 2.0的应用，是那些使大部分的内在优势，该平台：提供软件作为一种不断更新的服务获得更好更多的人使用它，消费和remixing数据从多种来源，包括个人用户，同时提供自己的数据和服务的一种形式，让remixing别人，创造网络效应，通过一个&架构的参与，&走出去网页隐喻的Web 1.0 ，以提供丰富的用户体验。

When we use or understand metaphors, our image schemas are activated.

当我们使用或理解隐喻，我们的形象模式被激活。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失