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实上，“思想是食物”的隐喻基于更基本的隐喻，比如，它部分基于“管道”隐喻，根据这种隐喻，“思想就是物体”，而且我们可以从我们身外获得这些隐喻。同时也假设出“头脑就是容器”隐喻，建立起头脑与身体之间的相似性（两者都是容器）。和“管道”隐喻一起我们得到了一个复杂的隐喻，在这个隐喻中，“思想是进入到头脑的物体”，就像食物是进到身体中的物体一样。这就隐喻性地创造出思想与事物之间的相似性，“思想就是食物”就是部分基于这种相似性正如我们所知，这种相似性就是“管道”隐喻和“头脑就是容器”隐喻的结果。
之后漏译了一段，原文如下：
 The IDEAS ARE FOOD metaphor fits our experience partly because of this metaphor-induced similarity. The IDEAS ARE FOOD metaphor is therefore partly grounded via the MIND IS A CONTAINER and CONDUIT metaphors. As a consequence of the IDEAS ARE FOOD metaphor, we get new (metaphorically) similarities between IDEAS and FOOD: both can be swallowed, digested, and devoured, and both can nourish you. These food concepts give us a way of understanding psychological processes that we have no direct and well- defined way of conceptualizing.