| 1. | This figure of speech is plain and pungent . 这个比喻平凡而发人深省。 |
| 2. | He wanted to use the baseball as a metaphor . 他想用垒球作个比喻。 |
| 3. | The comparison with painting is important . 用绘画来比喻是重要的。 |
| 4. | "bailout" is a colorful metaphor . “保释”是一个生动的比喻。 |
| 5. | I seem to be floundering in a sea of metaphor . 我好象在一大堆比喻里挣扎。 |
| 6. | He got confused among the metaphors . 这些比喻把他搞糊涂了。 |
| 7. | I conceive you to be now commending the similes . 我想你现在在称赞这个比喻了。 |
| 8. | That is a permissible metaphor . 这算是一个适当的比喻。 |
| 9. | The analogy left him unsatisfied . 他觉得这个比喻欠妥。 |
| 10. | The previous proof can be restated as a story . 上述证明可以用下面的比喻重述如下。 |