metaphorically

基本解释

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。
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He takes the reader to high places, literally and metaphorically, and to an understanding of how people from other cultures somehow get by in an unpredictable world.
他把读者带进了高原一处，通过文学上和比喻的方式，让人们理解如何才能进入到一个，不同于自身文化，新的神秘之地。
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。

"Dogs that are very bonded to their handlers can witness when, if you are looking into someone's eyes and 'the lights go out' metaphorically speaking.
We sometimes put it: the soul is in the body, though talking about spatial locations here may be somewhat metaphorically intended.
我们有时认为,灵魂在身体内,在谈论空间地点时,也许会暗示着某种隐喻
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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。
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We are in the middle of a knife fight between Washington and America, metaphorically.
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