隐喻

11 A second proof for the main conclusion is this. The end is the first cause in causing, wherefore Avicenna calls it the cause of causes. Reason confirms this, for the end moves metaphorically in so far as it is loved, and this is why the efficient cause gives form to the matter.

2.11 对主结论的第二个证明如下：目的是产生因果关系的第一因，因此阿维森纳称之为诸因之因，我们的理性证实了这一点，因为目的只要被仰慕，它就以隐喻的方式运动，这就是动力因把形式赋于物质的原因。

Unlike Rouault, Jianjun Shi was born in a remote rural area of Hunan during the Cultural Revolution, a period that all religions were considered to be superstition which should be thoroughly discarded. He doesn't have the same life experience and religious experience as Rouault has, but he has natural intuition of land and life, no wonder he takes the barren land and stubborn thorns as bitterness and salvation.

石建军不同，他出生在湖南的一个偏远农村，出生在一切宗教都被视为要彻底破除的迷信的文革之中，他没有卢奥的都市生活经验和宗教体验，但他有农民对大地和生命的天然的直观能力，由此，他用荒芜的原野和倔强的荆棘来隐喻受难和得救就似乎是顺理成章的事情了。

The scurrying pygmies are the Chinese edition of paintings by Hieronymus Bosch, the similarities in styles, hues, the collage fashion, metaphors applied by the narrative structure and the religious implications are quite evident.

刘大鸿绘画中窜动的集体小人是Hieronymus Bosch的中国版，型态色彩、荒缪拼贴、和以富宗教隐喻题材所架设的叙事结构也极度雷同。

Housman's poems are usually bare and stark; they have no word decorations, no elaborately developed metaphors or figures of speech.

霍斯曼的诗通常是简单而率直﹔他的诗没有文字的修饰，没有精心演译的隐喻或辞藻。

If that sounds like a metaphor for Japan's current malaise, then perhaps there is a silver lining.

如果这听起来像是隐喻了日本当今的不稳定，那可能还是有一线希望的。

for the americans, travel not only implies freedom and the american dream, but is also a material means to achieve manifest destiny.

对于美国人而言，上路旅行不仅是自由和美国梦的隐喻，而且是实现&显明的命定&的物质手段和方式。

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