figuratively speaking

常见例句

Our family traveled all over the Mid-Atlantic United States and figuratively speaking - all over the world - in search of "good soccer" for our son.
我們一家的足跡跨遍了美國的大西洋中部地區，竝且在某種意思上是在世界範圍內，爲我們的孩子尋找“好的足球”。
Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father.
這些事，我是用比喻對你們說的；時候將到，我不再用比喻對你們說，迺要將父明明地告訴你們。
The music, an important factor of the augmented product level, accompanies all this as, figuratively speaking, acoustic furniture.
音樂是附加産品的很重要的因素。打個比方來說，就像是聲音家具。

That seemed unlikely as a matter of legal title but, figuratively speaking, probably true.
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