1·By using stale metaphors, similes, and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague.
使用陈腐的暗喻、明喻和习语，你省了不少思考的力气，代价是你的意义的模糊。
2·By using stale metaphors, similes, and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.
使用陈腐的暗喻、明喻和习语，你省了不少思考的力气，代价是你的意义的模糊，不仅对读者，也对你自己模糊。
3·There's always, and I think this is nearly invariable -there's an element in Milton's similes that stands outside the framework of the basic comparison.
有一点是时常出现并且几乎不变的，-就是在弥尔顿的明喻中始终有一个元素，是从基本的对比框架中脱颖而出的。
4·The similes enable us to see something about the story that the rest of the poem doesn't enable us to see.
这些明喻使得我们能够深入了解一些，诗歌的剩余部分所不能让我们预见的事情。
5·In addition to similes, Marx employs a lot of metaphors in Capital.
在资本论中不仅有大量明喻，而且还有许多隐喻。