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Перевод: metaphor

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1. Naturally, most of the iron tonics sold over chemists' counters were bought because of the universal metaphor that iron equals strength rather than because of a popular awareness of the needs of haemoglobin.
2. This must not be dismissed as mere metaphor since it could also be true of the reader, for whom a health check might reveal their having suffered from a range of complaints in blissful ignorance.
3. However, how can this phenomenon be illuminated by means of the metaphor of levels of programming language, on which view the "lower activities" are inscrutable at the "higher level", given that, after a road accident, say, I can by conscious effort retrain myself to walk properly?
4. It was impossible to explain to someone like Coleby that the London of London was essentially a metaphor.
5. Moreover we recognize that to talk of "rising to the top" is an unavoidable metaphor that acknowledges the reality of competition.
6. Michael Ratcliffe in the Observer admired Crace's "fluent, witty and pyrotechnic ease", and Francis King in The Spectator his "audacious deployment of simile, metaphor and language".
7. Abolitionists saw themselves less as seekers after impartial truth than partisans whose gathering of facts was defined in military metaphor as "a Corps de Reserve against the hottest of the Battle".
8. In Search of Metaphor
9. To coin another military metaphor, he must "soldier on" knowing that all of this activity might well smack of sedition.
10. Dreams, of course, are a rich source of inspiration and guidance, as well as excellent training in thinking in metaphor.
11. Abstract expressionism exploited heuristics and programmed chance, using, in its poetry, both analogy and metaphor (ref: Chapter 15, "The Design Spectrum").
12. It hovered like an invisible metaphor over their lives, transforming a school lunch into a banquet, a classroom scuffle into a gladiatorial duel, haggling into cabinet-level negotiations.
13. The reason the coding metaphor has such currency in contemporary talk about perception is that it seems to suggest a way in which very simple and apparently homogenous elements such as nerve impulses can generate the richness and variety of consciousness.