You're speaking metaphorically, I hope.

我希望你是在打比方。

I'll leave you in Robin's capable hands— metaphorically speaking , of course!

我要把你放到罗宾能干的手中—当然，这只是打个比方。

Used metaphorically, the juxtaposed terms connote specific or essential traits of the being they refer to, introducing a mode of poetry as an almost habitual form of expression.

用比喻的方式，并列的术语隐含着它们所指称的存在的具体或本质的特征，引入了一种诗歌的模式作为习惯性的表达形式。

Metaphorically, that is.

这是隐喻(比喻)的说法。

Or I am speaking metaphorically-that might also help.

或者我换一种方式说，这也有帮助。

Metaphorically, have you ever spent 30 years in a cabin?

打比方来说 你有没有在一个木屋里住过30年?。

Put something on the road that metaphorically we can all follow.

把这个东西放在路上，我们都能够追随。

In Britain heads roll or are impaled on spikes only metaphorically.

在英国，比喻头头们要么转动尖状物，要么被钉在那上面。

Yes, yes, metaphorically speaking. - STONE: Well, that's the spirit.

是的，可以这么说-很好，要的就是这种精神。

We understand the future belongs to those who can metaphorically surf.

我们懂得未来将属于那些能够冲浪的人。

Metaphorically, it means soft metal is the power to guard our nature.

意译是，柔软的金属守护自然的力量。

Metamorphosis is symbolic of ascension both metaphorically and physically.

蜕变是精神和身体上同时提升的象征。

She has been appraised and audited and metaphorically slapped with a price tag.

在经过估价和审计后，她仿佛被“啪”的一声贴上了一块标价牌。

'Wall Street is a crime syndicate, and I am not speaking metaphorically,' Collum said.

科拉姆说，华尔街就是个犯罪集团，这不是打比方而是现实情况。

What is terrifying is the risk of humiliation, of metaphorically falling flat on one's face.

人们怕的是丢脸的风险，就好像摔个嘴啃泥那样脸面尽失。

One of the best ways to escape the constraints of your own logical mind is to think metaphorically.

逃避约束自己的逻辑思维最好的方法之一，是隐喻的思考。

In many languages, food is often used metaphorically or figuratively, as in "food for thought".

在许多语言里，食物通常被用来做隐语或比喻，例如“food for thought（令人深思的事情）”。

Therefore, absorbing foreign culture is metaphorically a process of taking a bite, chewing and ingesting.

打个比喻，吸取外国文化是一个入口、咀嚼和消化的过程。

Using our previous distribution example metaphorically, all our software departments need to get rid of their "trucks."

使用前面的比喻，所有我们的软件部门都需要避免他们的卡车。

From the cognitive perspective, synaesthesia is also a kind of metaphor, and it embodies metaphorically cognitive and thinking processes.

从认知的视角看，通感又是一种隐喻，同样包含着隐喻性的认知和思维过程。

Metaphorically, it's the curtain standing between the room you're living in now and a new room, much larger and full of beautiful objects.

而这个新房间相对大得多、有更多漂亮的物品。

The scene occurred at the parliamentary hearings on July 19, hearings designed, metaphorically, to knock her husband, Rupert, off his pedestal.

这个场面发生在7月19日的国会听证会上，这场听证会的醉翁之意就是要让她的丈夫默多克威风扫地。

This, I fear, the author means literally rather than metaphorically, for she seems to see no difference between the elephant and the human mind.

我觉得，作者表达的观点绝非夸张比喻而是认真的，因为她似乎认为大象与人类之间的思维之间没有区别。

Additionally, we need to incentivize the development and marketing of technologies that will, metaphorically speaking, get people off the couch.

此外，我们应当鼓励开发和销售，打个比方说，使人们离开沙发的技术。

About using these, Mayer says, "I see these five principles as the foundation of emergence, which (metaphorically) is Scrum in flower, blooming."

关于对这些的使用，Mayer说，“我把这五条原则比做是Scrum像花儿一样盛开的基础。”

On FEBRUARY 10th the world of psychiatry will be asked, metaphorically, to lie on the couch and answer questions about the state it thinks it is in.

2月10号，世界精神病治疗将会被质问，打个比方，就像是躺在长塌上回答它现在的精神状态。