送交者: skipper3 于 2005-10-04, 08:38:31:
回答: “trade off”中的“trade”算不算是“形象化的比喻”？ 由 Yush 于 2005-10-04, 01:31:00:
交易的目的嘛。even it takes root from a figure of speech, people use it so often that it has already lost the origional figure. So there won't be any confusion when you say you made a tradeoff. 不像“挂起来斗”，语文差的人可能真的要把skipper3挂到树上斗呢。