比喻的说法

This is just a figure of speech.

这只是一个比喻的说法。

There is a long list of flyblown metaphors which could similarly be got rid of if enough people would interest themselves in the job; and it should also be possible to laugh the "not un" formation out of existence, to reduce the amount of Latin and Greek in the average sentence, to drive out foreign phrases and strayed scientific words, and, in general, to make pretentiousness unfashionable.?

如果人们有兴趣，完全可以用同样方法把这一长列陈腐的比喻用法去除掉；也有可能使not un？结构不复存在，或减少一般句子中拉丁和希腊语的用量，或清除外国说法和语意不清的科学术语，总之，要使矫情做作，自命不凡变得不再时髦。？

The Transfiguration account rests outside of this scheme and serves as a "catechetical complement" or an "illustrative story" which complements Jesus' teaching.

至於显圣容之外的其他记述，是一种「教义式的补充」或「比喻故事」，但更精确的说法，多半是补充耶稣所教导的。

It's hard to find agreement on the origin of these terms, but there's a description comes from Robert Claiborne's Loose Cannons and Red Herrings—A Book of Lost Metaphors.

关于这两个术语的来源还没有统一的说法，但是罗伯特·克莱伯恩德的《不精确的大炮和熏青鱼：失传比喻之书》一书中有比较不错的说法。

The image of a human empire oppressing the rest of nature is no mere metaphor.

人类帝国压迫自然界其他&臣民&的情形说明这并非仅仅只是一种比喻的说法。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。