This simile is not on all fours with the thing that is is supposed to illustrate.(這個比喻同那個要說明的事物不大貼切。)

Why had the divine author permitted himself the ambiguity of simile?(為什么神圣的作者允許自己做模棱兩可的比喻？)

Then, one of the monks requested the Lord Buddha to explain the simile, which the Buddha did it in this way.(接著就有一位比丘請求佛陀解釋這個比喻。佛陀就詳細加以解釋。)

Did you notice the simile in the course title?(你是否注意到這個課程標題的比喻？)

The simile isn't telling us that Satan's spear is as small as a wand because what we have is a syllogism here.(這個比喻沒有告訴我們撒旦的長矛像魔杖一樣小，因為我們在這兒有一個演繹推理。)

First we have the "Pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff," and the pilot stands ab extra, from outside, in the simile.(首先我們看這句“迷茫深夜中，輕舟的導航人”，在這個明喻中，導航人從詩句之外向內眺望。)

Now, the purpose of this simile is to evince the indistinctness and the confusion produced by our vision of the fallen angels.(這個比喻的目的，是要表明由我們想象的天使們的樣子，帶來的模糊和困惑。)

The writer uses imagism and other figure of speech like simile etc.(作者在詩中使用了象征主義手法，和比喻等修辭方法。)

I’ll start with a deliberately melodramatic simile, then explain it.(首先我要用一個故意進行了戲劇化夸張的比喻來說明我的觀點，然后再進行解釋。)

Hartman's image of the simile isn't temporal the way Fish's was.(哈特曼關于這些比喻的描述并不是時間性的。)