According to Grady, Oakley & Coulson (1999), conceptual metaphors are among the stable structures available for exploitation by the blending process, and thus conceptual metaphors can serve as important inputs to conceptual integration.

• 概念隐喻理论关注的凝固化的隐喻映现在概念整合过程中可以被利用来生成新的突生结构，因而这些凝固化的隐喻映现对概念整合来说是重要的、稳定的输入空间。