This simile is not on all fours with the thing that is is supposed to illustrate.(这个比喻同那个要说明的事物不大贴切。)
Why had the divine author permitted himself the ambiguity of simile?(为什么神圣的作者允许自己做模棱两可的比喻？)
Then, one of the monks requested the Lord Buddha to explain the simile, which the Buddha did it in this way.(接着就有一位比丘请求佛陀解释这个比喻。佛陀就详细加以解释。)
Did you notice the simile in the course title?(你是否注意到这个课程标题的比喻？)
The simile isn't telling us that Satan's spear is as small as a wand because what we have is a syllogism here.(这个比喻没有告诉我们撒旦的长矛像魔杖一样小，因为我们在这儿有一个演绎推理。)
First we have the "Pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff," and the pilot stands ab extra, from outside, in the simile.(首先我们看这句“迷茫深夜中，轻舟的导航人”，在这个明喻中，导航人从诗句之外向内眺望。)
Now, the purpose of this simile is to evince the indistinctness and the confusion produced by our vision of the fallen angels.(这个比喻的目的，是要表明由我们想象的天使们的样子，带来的模糊和困惑。)
The writer uses imagism and other figure of speech like simile etc.(作者在诗中使用了象征主义手法，和比喻等修辞方法。)
I’ll start with a deliberately melodramatic simile, then explain it.(首先我要用一个故意进行了戏剧化夸张的比喻来说明我的观点，然后再进行解释。)
Hartman's image of the simile isn't temporal the way Fish's was.(哈特曼关于这些比喻的描述并不是时间性的。)
