隐喻

The traditional rhetoricians viewed metaphor as decorative in nature and independent of human cognition.

古典传统修辞学家认为隐喻的本质是修饰性的，并且是独立于人类认知系统之外的。

Metaphor has attracted the attention for scholars nearly in all fields, especially those of rhetoricians and literary critics for more than 2000 years.

2000多年以来，隐喻一直是众多学者注意的焦点，尤其是被修辞学家和批评家所青睐。

Metaphor study, which can be traced back to Aristotle, has been the interest of linguists and rhetoricians for more than 2000 years.

两千多年来，隐喻一直是众多语言学家特别是修辞学家的研究兴趣所在，他们从不同视角进行的深入研究也形成了流派众多的理论。

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。

Alternative explanations are either that the description as red is a poetic metaphor for ill fortune, or that the dramatic scintillations of the star when it was observed rising left the viewer with the impression that it was red.

二者之一的要么是描写成红色是有病的命运诗的隐喻，要么就是星星不停地闪烁，当观察它升降时，观察者印象里它是红色的。（译者注：其实就是星星的能级提高，颜色相应变化的原因。

Fuller invented the Geodesic dome coined the term synergetics, a "Geometry of Thinking," a metaphoric language for communicating experiences using geometric concepts, long before the term synergy became popular.

福勒发明了多面体球顶，创造了&协同几何学&这一词汇，提出&几何学的思维&，开创了用几何学的概念、使用隐喻语言沟通经验；很长时间以后，&协同&这一词语才流行起来。

Storytellers understand that there is no perfect metaphor.

擅长讲故事的人都明白，不存在完美的隐喻。

The thesis first introduces the main cognitive theories such as figure-ground theory, image schema and conceptual metaphor.

本文介绍了认知语言学中的主要理论模式，即图形－背景、意象图式、概念隐喻。

In essence,New Historicism is a historicism that deals with history imaginatively and subversively .

新历史主义实质上是一种与历史发生虚构、想像或隐喻联系的语言文本和文化文本的历史主义，带有明显的批判性、消解性和颠覆性等后现代主义特征，强调主体对历史的干预和改写。

Meanwhile, metaphor is an indispensable means by which human beings recognize the world. The metaphoric cognitive mechanism affects the syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations in sentences and it can change the original semantic rule of the sentence.

同时，隐喻又是人类认知世界过程中一种不可缺少的重要方式和手段，它的认知功能直接影响着句子的组合关系，可以改变句子原有的语义规则。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷