The creative nature of metaphor is to find new relationship in two or more existing concepts or cultivates new meaning in an existing concept so as to exploit new mental space.

• 隐喻的创造本质就是在两个或两个以上已知的概念中发现新的关系，或者在一个已知的概念中挖掘出人们意想不到的内涵，从而开拓新的认知空间。