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Перевод: figuratively

[наречие]
метафорически; образно; фигурально

Тезаурус:

1. statue of the goddess Pallas (Minerva) at Troy on which the city's safety was said to depend, hence, figuratively speaking, the Bar seen as a bulwark of society.
2. Thee will not think I talk figuratively when I tell thee that his pine apple stove is sixty feet long, twenty feet wide and height proportionable.
3. "Figuratively, yes."
4. Numbers were represented figuratively by patterns similar to those still found on dominoes and dice.
5. Alternatively, you could select spiky, upright plants like agaves or yuccas to transport you across the world, figuratively speaking, to the great deserts of North America.
6. After all, Pound had married England - not figuratively, but literally, in the person of Dorothy Shakespear; and Ben Hecht in 1918 reported that Pound was "a doting monogamist".
7. The darts, the lumps of poison and the raw materials from which it is extracted all provide a challenge for others with a taste (figuratively speaking) for excitement.
8. Figuratively.
9. "Shambles": Latin; scamnum , a bench or stool, or table from which meat is sold, hence; a meat-market, a slaughter-house or, figuratively; a place of carnage .
10. Figuratively speaking, who would not give their right arm to find such a love?
11. Recent visits to Greece and/or Turkey appear to have been inspirational, with feta cheese oozing (figuratively, of course) from several entries.
12. Perhaps the distinction between the response of the criminal law to a request that treatment be ended and to (figuratively) taking a knife to the patient rests on four basic and interrelated premisses.
13. Dorinda only knows herself by the mirror: it has literally and figuratively provided her with a self-image.