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It's also an example of how we inevitably resort to metaphor when we deal with anything abstract, like ideas, emotions, feelings, concepts, thoughts.

这也是一个例子，说明当我们处理任何抽象的事情时，比如想法、情感、感觉、概念、思想，总会不可避免地求助于暗喻。

In this, Elvis is following Aristotle's classic definition of metaphor, that is, metaphor is the process of giving the thing a name that belongs to something else.

在这一点上，埃维斯遵循了亚里士多德对暗喻的经典定义，即暗喻是赋予事物一个属于其他事物的名称的过程。

And this is the mathematics of metaphor.

这就是暗喻的数学原理。

X equals Y. It's very simple, isn't it?

X等同于Y。这很简单，对吧？

This formula works wherever metaphor is present.

只要有暗喻，这个等式就能成立。

Elvis uses metaphor, and so does Shakespeare in this famous line from Romeo and Juliet, that is, "Juliet is the sun".

埃维斯使用了暗喻，莎士比亚在《罗密欧与朱丽叶》中的这句名言也使用了暗喻，即“朱丽叶是太阳”。

Now, here, Shakespeare gives the thing, Juliet, a name that belongs to something else, the sun.

在这句话中，莎士比亚将原本属于“太阳”的名字给了朱丽叶。

In fact, whenever we give a thing a name that belongs to something else, we give it a whole network of analogies too.

事实上，每当我们给一样东西起一个属于其他东西的名字，同时也赋予了它一个完整的类比网络。