1. It even has a faint but resonant metaphoric trace: that of someone handing you an important note. 它甚至还有些隐喻的痕迹，就像某人交给你一个重要的备忘录。
2. Use metaphors if you can find them, but don't bend your interface to fit some arbitrary metaphoric standard. 如果你能找到合适的隐喻，就使用他们，但不要让你的界面屈从某些任意的隐喻标准。
3. We grasp the meaning of the metaphoric controls in an interface because we mentally connect them with other things we have already learned. 我们之所以理解界面中隐喻控件的含义，是因为在心里把它们与其他我们熟悉的事物联系在一起。
英英解释
adj.
1. expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another
