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Asteroids - something from the sky comes closer and closer and then hits 'Home'! Have the metaphors 'hit home' with you yet?

One must understand the metaphors of this geometry to understand Metatron and the electromagnetic nature of the creational of our reality.

This effect is often the result of similes and metaphors in the writing, which create powerful images in the reader's mind.

As projects get larger, trying to have the right set of metaphors would, in my opinion, be less than cost effective.

I'm trying to find not the metaphors, but, rather, the points in common: the common gripes, the common issues, the common preoccupations.

To mix yet more metaphors, you were trying to run before you could walk, and I've clipped your wings.

Shopworn as these metaphors may be, they aptly capture the extreme and unexpected nature of the circumstances.

A new paper suggests that both metaphors can be true. Which one is relevant depends, it turns out, on the economic status of families.

The theme of flaming torches appears to be linked to a set of practices and metaphors consistent with the idea of hierogamy.

be easy to discover visual metaphors for physical objects like printers and documents.

Shifting metaphors, he said it was time "to take the bull by the horns and reopen the constitution" .

Of course, no journalist would muddy the waters of a message with such a mixed bag of metaphors.

To fulfill the purposes God made you for, you will have to challenge conventional wisdom and replace it with the biblical metaphors of life.

We recommend that you use one or two of these general purpose metaphors during the first hypnotherapy session.

There is an infinity of idioms waiting to be invented, but only a limited set of metaphors waiting to be discovered.

this figure of speech is often found in persuasive writing . Metaphors compare something to something else .

Miss Bessie gave plenty of both, as she immersed me in a wonderful world of similes, metaphors and even onomatopoeia.

and spatial metaphors, have an extremely limited place in the design of most Information-Age, software-enabled products.

They don't understand the metaphors and a sort of richness to it, but at the same time, it resonates.

It helped that Wang Qimin is an uncannily supple dancer, with a technique so precise she can create whatever physical metaphors she chooses.

The Bible is full of metaphors that teach about the brief, temporary, transient nature of life on earth.

sort with its gorgeous metaphors, became in its burlesque moments a variant of the tall tale.

Metaphors helped structure these critical design features and made for good marketing copy but were never the main appeal.

Nevertheless, metaphors of each animal bear more variations than universalities, because these four animals are culturally-loaded.

It is always better to design idiomatically, using metaphors only when a truly appropriate and powerful one falls in our lap.

Structural metaphors imply how one concept is metaphorically structuring one concept in terms of another.

One of the key metaphors within the Eclipse user interface is the perspective.

Like many Chinese officials, Mr Yu displays a facility with figures and a propensity to deploy them using military metaphors.

Metaphors should suggest a use for a particular element, but that use doesn't have to limit the implementation of the metaphor.

Look carefully, though, and much of today's gloom is as overdone as the military metaphors that now pepper the currency debate.

That it didn't always need to be polite. That it could have runaway metaphors just for a laugh.

Do any your metaphors need to be replaced with ones more compatible with your situation?

The Bible uses symbols and metaphors much more frequently than a modern text, and numbers are used symbolically as well.

Form that harmonizes easily with your interior as the design metaphors a garbage box.

Good metaphors, like using a fridge as a gateway to theworld of Zima, can elevate a merely good site to a great site.

And now for the metaphors. In the beginning of the dream you wake up.

Meanwhile, the Conceptual Blending Theory (hereinafter CB) is an advanced theory for explaining metaphors.

' The thought of the two rambunctious Scots swapping metaphors amid the meat cleavers is compelling.

When working together, grammatical metaphors make a contract more condensed, objective and authoritative.

True, he minimises the use of equations and has dreamt up some imaginative metaphors to help make complex notions more accessible.

Tools are metaphors that shape how you think.

It also introduces the classification of English metaphors in two different ways, with some analysis of typical examples.

Such metaphors would have been learned and hard-wired into the brain at a young age.

On rival dating show, Go for Love, a contestant cut out the metaphors altogether: "Don't talk to me unless you're rich. "

And they don't understand the metaphors and the sort of richness to it, but at the same time, it resonates.

Therefore, there is an inseparable relationship between the cognitive subject and the construction of metaphors.

And somebody was talking about metaphors on Monday. And I thought, what a wonderful metaphor isn't it?

Mr. Isaacson takes his readers back to the time when laptops, desktops and windows were metaphors, not everyday realities.

Searching for metaphors to describe embattled social groups, Chinese media have recently seemed to favor the animal kingdom.

Metaphors give first-timers a penny's worth of value but cost them many dollars' worth of problems as they continue to use the software.

metaphors that have not been assimilated into the culture of target language.

Culture is distinctively characterized by its nation. Metaphors from different cultures are both homogeneous and heterogeneous.

Thus studying translation of metaphors is supposed to shed light immediately on the cognitive mechanism underlying translation process.

Our application will let us add photos to a set or delete the photos, all using drag and drop metaphors.

Sports metaphors, which were a source of confusion, have been banned from conference calls.

There are two very strong metaphors. One compares language with the human soul or psyche, the other one with an ancient city.

The sexual description of the sexual-resistance novels in new period show the meaning about gender metaphors and power metaphors.

The spatial metaphors used to represent time are defined as the Spatio-temporal metaphors.

But neither of these metaphors is quite right.

It may further develop the studies on metaphors, and enrich the metaphorical language teaching theories.

LI: Please! Don't use too much metaphors! It would make us far away from our topic. Now, answer me, what is home for?

People often express their life metaphors through clothes, jewelry, cars, hairstyles, bumper stickers, even tattoos.

And he expressed his unshakeable convictions in everyday language, in metaphors, in stories.

It isn't necessarily truer than other metaphors, but it is only truer to the age.

Eventually he couldn't make sense of metaphors, similes, poems, or even complex sentences.

Congratulations . . . poetic metaphors used with great effect, and emotions conveyed powerfully in choice of words!

From the syntactic perspective, this article analyzes and compares the syntactic features of English and Chinese animal metaphors.

The language of the chants, almost impossible to transcribe, is full of repetitions, synonyms, figurative terms and metaphors.

My metaphors for this role fluctuate: gardener, mid-wife, coach, pearl-cultivator, phlebotomist .

Initially shocking, these sights serve to inspire some of the more enigmatic metaphors of the film.

But it's a metaphor and metaphors are important. My gold stars are a metaphor for me being a star.

This paper investigates the explanatory power of blended space theory to metaphors.

Star also goes to Isis and related links and metaphors about the creation of the human biogenetic program - Genesis.

I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression, ' said Mark, who was fond of theatrical metaphors.

But how do you know which of the many metaphors is most widespread and more understandable for users?

Using metaphors from the realm of personal fitness and weight loss, this article explores concrete, effective ways to achieve those goals.

It enriches the cognitive theory on animal metaphors by revealing their generation and interpretation mechanism.

Such studies as spatial metaphors, English anaphora, and metaphors in discourse are all belonging to cognitive study.

Stolzenburg says the islands essentially serve as metaphors for how the world's invasive species can irreparably alter fragile ecosystems.

In the mental model of a task related to photography, the metaphors include photographs, cameras, and albums.

Metaphor is a universal linguistic phenomenon and also a rhetoric device. Each language contains rich metaphors.

CONCLUSIONS: The metaphors of dance bring the concept to life in a new way.

A fan of military metaphors, he calls the current challenge the greatest the country has faced since Pearl Harbour.

She advises writers to try using caveats with dramatic metaphors, or simply use alternative metaphors.

Do not use metaphors that can be wrongly understood by your audiences because of their cultural background.

Familiar user interfaces draw on concepts from the users' previous experiences and use appropriate metaphors.

Models should be seen as metaphors that can enlighten but do not describe the world perfectly.

This herd mentality (lots of cow metaphors today) is tying people down, rather than bringing the freedoms of development.

English, like other languages, has colorful metaphors linking the hand to notions of influence by forces beyond our control.

Language is filled with conceptual metaphors that consist of conventional and novel metaphors.

At times, this synthesis seemed to stem from nothing more than some very slippery metaphors.

If you feel that something is "holding you back" or that there's a "wall" blocking your progress, look at the metaphors you're using.

Change can be modeled by two different metaphors: calm-waters and white-water rapids.

For generations, GM vehicles have inspired artistic metaphors of freedom, speed, youth, romance, power and sex.

That computer viruses, virtual economies, reality tv shows, and warrior bots in games are all high tech metaphors.

The hero and heroine became metaphors. The using of intertextuality heightens the gist of the works.

However, its practitioners must realize that poorly analyzed metaphors can say too much or too little.

War metaphors have long drawn scholars'attention, but the studies on war metaphors in sports reports are still insufficient.

This thesis analyzes metaphors in economic report headlines generally and explicitly.

This paper will discuss metaphors in the Bible, and its influence on western culture.

The first is to apply the meaning of the metaphors to an efficiently working heart.

In this chapter, we discuss the reasons for this, as well as the alternatives to design based on metaphors.

I confess to the waysIde arbour, the pIpe of contentment, and the lotus leaves beIng altogether unsuItable metaphors.

Some visual metaphors can be cool in one culture, but downright offensive in others.

In translating such metaphors into English, as in cases of other metaphors, literality is the first choice.

It has also inspired some rather unfortunate metaphors.

Therefore, if our evolutionary metaphors are to communicate, they need to convey this counterintuitive concept.

Metaphors are a persuasive and motivating strategy which is extremely representative and efficient.

Relationships between elements are described using either family or tree metaphors.

But now those enduring metaphors are no longer poetry. They are becoming real -- profitably real.

LI Shang-yin's poems are teemed with metaphors, which are either from nature and daily life or from myth and Buddhism stories.

The sexual-power metaphors novels describe the potential impact of ideology and power operation.

Nevertheless, little attention has been paid to eating metaphors despite its rich variety of usage in almost every field of our life.

Other metaphors miss the mark because they fail to grasp or convey the root concept of the science.

Those exposed to agent metaphors had higher expectations that price trends would continue.

The process of adapting to new intellectual technologies is reflected in the changing metaphors we use to explain ourselves to ourselves.

And they had those expectations because agent metaphors imply the deliberate action of a living thing pursuing a goal.

The metaphors of darkness are overwhelmingly negative: danger, decay, and death.

Do all the words, phrases, sayings and metaphors translate directly to the target language?

But if cool heads prevail, peacemaking metaphors could yet become as pervasive as today's bellicose ones.

According to cognitive view, allusions are historical metaphors which describe the current affairs by referring to historical event.

The avoidance of "violent expressions and metaphors" like "kill two birds with one stone" , . . . the writer's use of metaphor.

Odom laughed when he realized he had mixed his metaphors.

His briefings were filled with elaborate metaphors and striking images.

He increasingly tuned his metaphors and images to the needs of the drama itself.

It may be no more valid than past metaphors, but it makes a lot more sense to people 30 years and under.

Listen to your heart rather than your mind ? Heart and mind are just metaphors.

Nominalizing metaphors play a predominant role in forming the features of contract.

Ch'ien Chung-shu, the author, employs a great many of metaphors to create humor and satire along an essentially serious theme.

Both metaphors are instructive but neither is adequate to describe the world: to take either too seriously leads to error.

It doesn't have to make logical sense (metaphors often don't); your unconscious knows how it folds together.

The translation of metaphors, personification and Litotes etc.

We utter about six metaphors a minute.

metaphors used by high credible advertiser produce more favorable Aad and AB than low credible one.

Create new, more empowering metaphors for life and for each of the areas you focused on.

Ruins and buildings are really good metaphors for human nature, for our ability to create and destroy.

Even if we're unaware of it, we constantly use metaphors to describe aspects of our lives.

some of the metaphors in the sports reports are conventional and used unconsciously, such as win, defeat, victory, performance, lead etc.

In both English and Chinese, there exist a large number of container metaphors.

He got confused among the metaphors.

These metaphors do more to explain his points than paragraphs of technical jargon ever could.

The Bible offers three metaphors that teach us God's view of life: Life is a test, life is a trust, and life is a temporary assignment.

Metaphors are seen in everyday conversations and literature works.

Websites that use metaphors almost always go way overboard and end up reducing usability.

For each category, the researchers looked to explore popular metaphors.

These hideous and delicate products of wonderful art are to jewellers ' work what the metaphors of slang are to poetry.

Mr Asmus's metaphors may be breathtakingly mixed, but his big point is right.

All these metaphors in the political ghosts controlled bored silly widespread psychological state and the harsh reality of life.

The results indicate that metaphors increase the effectiveness of ads.

In other words, Porter uses nature metaphors or simples to present female characters with vividness and efficiency.

By the way, this research can also tell whether Chinese and English really share the basic metaphors concerning the happy emotion.

When a person feels in love, their mental representation, metaphors and even body image are also affected.

However, as I walk the fairway, even I end up thinking in golf metaphors.

Metaphors can strongly influence how people perceive the value of what a company or brand offers.

We understand metaphors intuitively, but what does that really mean ?

Because of the similarities of human experience and human cognitive system, both English and Chinese share many similarities in metaphors.

This paper intends to make an inquiry of Davidson' s thoughts on what metaphors mean and how they are interpreted.

Certain diseases are personified and there are also "disease as target domain" metaphors.

Then try it by making as many verbs as possible metaphorical (embedded metaphors).

Frenzy, Violence and Death: On the Ruling Metaphors in Faulkner's "Dry September"

This behavioral definition of "real" means that metaphors are tools.

STRUCTURAL METAPHORS Toyota moves forward as your partner.

Metaphors also rely on associations perceived in similar ways by both the designer and the user.

You can learn abstract processes by creating metaphors for more common events.

Few writers can pull off a Shakespearean sonnet or metaphors like Wordsworth, so don't try.

Metaphors are literary devices that link two things that normally don't go together.

Come up with metaphors to describe more complicated ideas in simpler terms.

Metaphors mean different things to different people.

Enough of the metaphors now, let us get to the nuts and bolts of how you jump timelines.

Metaphors are the way of thinking which is recognized through other concepts.

Both the valet key and ATM cards are good metaphors for OAuth from a user perspective.

First, one must beware of misleading metaphors of organic decline.

In the letter-writing example, the metaphors include letters, mail boxes, and envelopes.

Cognitive theories, such as CPR, prototype category theory and conceptual metaphors, have important implications to discourse coherence.

The two sports events are metaphors for two models of development.

But aside from slides and charts, you can also offer metaphors, similes, and anecdotes to better engage your audience.

It's fashionable in anti-obesity circles to borrow insights and metaphors from the 50-year battle against smoking.

As it is known to all, metaphors exist everywhere in our languages. It has drawn more and more attention from the linguistic academic world.

Create your own metaphors for different ideas.

But, in a deep sense, the metaphors are also wrong.

they must invent visual metaphors for buttons that adequately convey meaning to first-time users.

Where do they learn to construct and manipulate metaphors?

And Rumi's stories are metaphors for the spiritual path.

Thus, She's an angel and He's a lion in battle are metaphors.

That metaphors can reflect real behaviour is well known.

This study is concerned with the non-experientiality of cultural metaphors from the empirical perspective.

It's not hard to express the quality we're looking for in metaphors.

ORIENTIONAL METAPHORS The new Nokia 8800 Sirocco Edition builds on a heritage of impeccable design.

Metaphors are abundant in Chinese idioms.

That is why more people show great interest in metaphors. They also draw special attention from translators and translation theorists.

And many of the metaphors we use everyday are synesthetic. Silence is sweet.

So we must study color metaphors from perspective of Palmer's cultural linguistics.

The most significant problem with metaphors, however, is that they tie our interfaces to Mechanical Age artifacts.

in the us, people used a lot of sports metaphors. elsewhere, that just wasn't a common metaphor.

the artful dodger; an artful choice of metaphors.

Metaphors and mnemonic devices can increase retention by as much as 40%.

This article from the power, means, effects of three aspects of the formation of metaphors in the Chinese vocabulary development role.

Lois: I'm tired of fumbling around with all these football metaphors.

You will find you can use similes and metaphors to create powerful images.

An awareness of metaphors is very helpful in understanding poetry.

But then the metaphors started to fade and the daily grind set in.

There are many animal names used as metaphors in both English and Chinese.

They comprehend abstract language, such as idioms, figurative language, and metaphors.

I don't understand fishing metaphors.

That's banking on some ancient metaphors.

We conjure up out own metaphors for our own needs.

We are still trapped in worn-out mechanical metaphors.

So, how do we make and understand metaphors?

Life's metaphors are God's instructions.

They feel that if they can just bind XML tightly into familiar metaphors, then they can get a grip on modeling problems.

Scientists employ the metaphors in order to find the similarity between targets and sources hence the discovery of new phenomena. 2.

It's a debate about words, about metaphors.

One nice thing about all these languages is that it is easy to think about them within familiar temporal metaphors.

Mental impressions such as these may be regarded as the metaphors of thoughts and notions.

The things which we use to embody or give a shape to our feelings are metaphors.

And bad metaphors make for bad policy.

Well-chosen analogies and metaphors can also help.

Teams use metaphors the same way.

We often draw on physical metaphors when we think and talk about our feelings.

Don't use any WWII metaphors. Ever.

And talk about where metaphors and reality mix -- this is the actual school.

But in truth, all these metaphors mislead.

This story tells us what kinds of, to close what. What metaphors do something, you get what results.

These are very much metaphors of the next millennium.

Since in the poems, ci poems and verses so many metaphors are used, we should study them with the guidance of metaphor theories.

Do you understand the metaphors in this story now?

So I use metaphors: imagine you sell sports shoes (are you listening, Nike? ).

I've been to several conferences where he's spoken and he always has interesting metaphors from math, physics and literature.

The deeper problem is: Who is going to write the metaphors?

On the other hand, it will benefit the analysis of metaphors in Chinese idiom study.

If the user doesn't have the same cultural background as the designer, it is easy for metaphors to fail.

An Intercultural Comparison between Chinese and English Metaphors and a Tentative Discussion of the Translation Strategy

So to mix metaphors, there's an angels on the head of a pin aspect to a lot of this discussion;

A Study of the Imagery Representation of Metaphors and its Processing Effects

A Comparative Study of Differences in Chinese and English Time Conceptual metaphors from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics

The Rhetoric and Cognitive Nature of Metaphors

On Relationship of Metaphors and Culture from a Comparative Study of Chinese and English Temporal Metaphors

A study on the representation nature of metaphors

With the cognitive view of metaphors and idioms, the thesis is to study the interpretation of metaphors in English idioms.

A Case Study of Naturalistic Description with Metaphors and Exaggerations in Composition

An enquiry into schemata theory and its application to the procedure of understanding English metaphors

The Comparison and Translation Techniques of Chinese Animal Metaphors, English Animal Metaphors and Russian Animal Metaphors

Cognitive Comparison of Similarities and Individualities Between English and Chinese Metaphors

A Preliminary Analysis of the Commonness and the Differences between English and Chinese Conventional Metaphors

The Dissimilarities of Animals'Metaphors between the Eastern and Western Cultures

A Contrastive Study of Modality Metaphors Between English and Chinese

A Study of the Hierarchical Network Model of Time Metaphors

Interpreting Grammatical Metaphors in Journalistic English

The categories of conceptual metaphors and its cognitive force in language teaching

The Connections between Context and English Metaphors and its Translation