抽象詞、抽象詞組、比喻
As she put it in The Common Reader, “It is safe to say that not a single law has been framed or one stone set upon another because of anything Chaucer said or wrote; and yet, as we read him, we are absorbing morality at every pore."
就像她在《致普通讀者》一書中所表達的那樣,“盡管可以毫無疑問的說,沒有任何法律被指定出來,也沒有任何高樓大廈被建立起來是因為喬叟說了什么或者寫了什么;然而,當我們讀它的書的時候,我們身上每一個毛孔都充滿了道德”。
這句話不但用了詞抽象,還用了比喻的修辭手法。是指沒有因為喬叟的言論而產生任何實際的行為規則或政治機構,但我們受其影響之深,以及其影響力之大。