metaphorically

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Therefore, absorbing foreign culture is metaphorically a process of taking a bite, chewing and ingesting.
打個比喻，吸取外國文化是一個入口、咀嚼和消化的過程。
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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.
他把讀者帶進了高原一処，通過文學上和比喻的方式，讓人們理解如何才能進入到一個，不同於自身文化，新的神秘之地。
Put something on the road that metaphorically we can all follow.
把這個東西放在路上,我們都能夠追隨。

"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.
我們有時認爲,霛魂在身躰內,在談論空間地點時,也許會暗示著某種隱喻
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Put something on the road that metaphorically we can all follow.
把這個東西放在路上,我們都能夠追隨。
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We are in the middle of a knife fight between Washington and America, metaphorically.
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