1.比喻的;借喻的 If you use a word or expression in a figurative sense, you use it with a more abstract or imaginative meaning than its ordinary literal one.
figuratively Europe, with Germany literally and figuratively at its centre, is still at the start of a remarkable transformation. 以德国作为地理以及比喻意义上的中心的欧洲仍处于巨大变革的初期。
