1·He imprisoned her in a figurative sense.
在比喻的意义上讲，他把她关在牢里了。
2·He imprisoned her, in a figurative sense.
在比喻的意义上，他把她关在牢里了。
3·Here the word is used in a figurative sense.
这里该字是在比喻的意义上使用的。
4·The word here is used in its figurative sense.
此词在这儿取的是它的比喻意义。
5·The word here is used in its figurative sense.
此词在这儿取的是它的比方意义。
6·I think you might find that he thought this text was intended in a figurative sense.
我相信你们会发现这段文字是趋向于一种修饰性的意义。
7·In the same figurative sense I received my individual wings, and what gave me them was my bicycle.
同样地，我得到了属于我自己的翅膀，这就是我的自行车。
8·You are going to see that the application must be employed moreover in the proper sense as well as in the figurative sense.
你们将会看次，这个应用被实施，必须以适当的意义，及以比喻的意义。
9·The meaning of differentiated graph coincides with the original sense and also with the extended meaning or figurative sense.
分化字的意义可以与原字意义重合，也可以是引申义或假借义。
10·Denerality of human rational thinking, as well as cultural overlaps, accounts for the similarity of vehicle and its figurative sense in both English and Chinese.
喻体与喻义在英汉文化中有完全一致的时候，这是因为任何两个社会都有文化重叠之处，加之人类理性思维的共性。