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This formula works wherever metaphor is present. 这个公式适用于所有的暗喻。 Elvis uses it, but so does Shakespeare in this famous line from “Romeo and Juliet:” Juliet is the sun. 埃尔维斯用到它，莎士比亚也同样用到它，于《罗密欧与朱丽叶》中有这样的名句：朱丽叶是太阳。 Now, here, Shakespeare gives the thing, Juliet, a name that belongs to something els...
Ralph Waldo Emerson described language as “fossil poetry.” 诗人艾默生曾将语言描述为“化石般的诗”。 But before it was fossil poetry, language was fossil metaphor. 但是在它成为化石般的诗之前，语言是化石般的暗喻。 And these fossils still breathe. 而这些化石现在仍具有生气。 Take the three most famous words in all of Western philosophy: “Cogito...
Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. 暗喻秘密地生活在我们中间。 We utter about six metaphors a minute. 于我们的言谈中，每分钟大约会出现六个暗喻。 Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and others, 暗喻思维是一把钥匙，它可以开启我们相互理解 how we communicate, learn, discover and invent. 沟通、学习、发现和创新的大门。 ...
A group of students was told that a small democratic country had been invaded and had asked the U.S. for help. 在一项研究中，一群学生被告知某个民主小国在遭到侵略后向美国寻求援助。 And they had to make a decision. What should they do? 学生们必须决定怎么办。他们该怎么做呢？ Intervene, appeal to the U.N., or do nothing? 干预，向联合国申诉，还是袖手旁观？ They...
Why? Because we cannot ignore the metaphorical meaning of words either. 这是为什么？因为我们同样也不能忽视这些词暗喻的意义。 One of the sentences was, “Some jobs are jails.” 其中一句话是：“有些工作是监狱” Now, unless you’re a prison guard, the sentence “Some jobs are jails” is literally false. 当然，除非你是监狱看守，“有些工作是...
If you are like 98 percent of other people, 如果你象其余百分之九十八的人一样， you will identify the round, amoeboid shape as Bouba, and the sharp, spiky one as Kiki. 你会把这个圆圆的，变形虫形状的叫做Bouba，把尖尖的，刺猬状的叫做Kiki。 Can we do a quick show of hands? Does that correspond? 是这样的请举手？是不是象我说的那样？ Okay, I think 99.9 would abou...