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James Geary
Aphorism enthusiast and author James Geary waxes on a fascinating fixture of human language: the metaphor. Friend of scribes from Aristotle to Elvis, metaphor can subtly influence the decisions we make, Geary says.

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"Romeo and Juliet"
A touch is not a touch, but a chill. Lips are not lips, but volcanoes. She is not she, but a buttercup. And love is not love, but being all shook up. In this, Elvis is following Aristotle's classic definition of metaphor as the process of giving the thing a name that belongs to something else. This is the mathematics of metaphor. And fortunately it's very simple. X equals Y. This formula works wherever metaphor is present. Elvis uses it, but so does Shakespeare in this famous line from "Romeo and Juliet:" Juliet is the sun. Now, here, Shakespeare gives the thing, Juliet, a name that belongs to something else, the sun. But whenever we give a thing a name that belongs to something else, we give it a whole network of analogies too. We mix and match what we know about the metaphor's source, in this case the sun, with what we know about its target, Juliet.
觸摸不再是觸摸，而是寒氣。嘴唇不再是嘴唇，而是火山。她不再是她，而是毛茛花（一種小黃花）。愛情也不再是愛情，而是變得神魂顛倒了。 在這里，埃爾維斯采用的完全是亞里士多德對暗喻的經(jīng)典定義，亦即是把B事物的名稱賦予給A事物的過程。這就是暗喻的數(shù)學(xué)公式。幸好它很簡單。X等于Y。這個公式適用于所有的暗喻。 埃爾維斯用到它，莎士比亞也同樣用到它。于《羅密歐與朱麗葉》中有這樣的名句—朱麗葉是太陽。在這里莎士比亞賦予朱麗葉一個屬于其它事物的名稱，太陽。但是當(dāng)我們賦予A事物以B事物的名稱時，我們也賦予它一整套的類比。我們把對喻體的認(rèn)知，此處是太陽，與對本體的認(rèn)知——朱麗葉聯(lián)系在一起，這樣的暗喻可使我們更生動地理解朱麗葉，強(qiáng)過莎士比亞忠實地描述她的相貌。