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so, they completely miss the metaphorical meaning.
他完全不明白其中的比喻意义。

and this is not in some abstract metaphorical sense.
这并不是种抽象的道理，

and the metaphorical truth interferes with our ability to identify it as literally false.
而暗喻上的真实干扰了我们的辨识能力， 以至于难于区分字面上的真假。

metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and others, how we communicate, learn, discover and invent.
暗喻思维是一把钥匙， 它可以开启我们相互理解 沟通、学习、发现 和创新的大门。

by bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.
当我们用类比把已知 和未知联系在一起时， 暗喻的思维就会点燃 发现的火花。

people who have no light, whether it's physical or metaphorical, cannot pass our exams, and we can never know what they know.
无论是实际生活中还是社会意义上 不能享受光明的人 都无法通过我们的测试， 我们也无法了解他们拥有的知识。

the "dialogue " -- assuming that its philosophical and theoretical significance has been established -- has a double sense: concrete and metaphorical.
"对话 "－假定已经确定了它的哲学和理论含义－有双重含义：具体和抽象的。

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