TED演讲:暗喻言说(1/6)

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【TED】是一个会议的名称，它是英文technology,entertainment, design三个单词的首字母缩写。它是社会各界精英交流的盛会，这里有当代最杰出的思想家，这里有当代最优秀的科学家，这里有迸发着最闪耀的思想火花，这里孕育着最光辉的梦想。

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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Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and others, how we communicate, learn, discover and invent. But metaphor is a way of thought before it is a way with words.  
Now, to assist me in explaining this, I've enlisted the help of one of our greatest philosophers, the reigning king of the metaphorians, a man whose contributions to the field are so great that he himself has become a metaphor. I am, of course, referring to none other than Elvis Presley.
Now, "All Shook Up" is a great love song. It's also a great example of how whenever we deal with anything abstract -- ideas, emotions, feelings, concepts, thoughts -- we inevitably resort to metaphor.暗喻秘密地生活在我们中间。于我们的言谈中，每分钟大约会出现六个暗喻。暗喻思维是一把钥匙，它可以开启我们相互理解沟通、学习、发现和创新的大门。首先，暗喻是一种思维方式。
为了说明这一点，我请教了一位当代最伟大的哲学家，当权的暗喻皇帝，一位因其对暗喻学的巨大贡献而自身成了一位暗喻的人物。当然，我指的不是别人，正是猫王埃尔维斯-普雷斯利。
好，《神魂颠倒》（意即整个人都被动摇了）是一首经典情歌。也是一个极好的暗喻范例，它诠释了当我们面临抽象事物时，无论是主意、情绪、感觉、概念亦或是思想，都不得不求助于暗喻。