Thanks to those current fruitful discussions of cognitive semantics originated by George Lakoff, metaphor has been universally acknowledged as a unique mechanism to perceive and comprehend the world.

• 在乔治·莱考夫引导的认知语义学极富成效的热烈讨论下,人们已经普遍意识到隐喻是一种独具魅力的感知和认识世界的机制。