Metaphors are a powerful cognitive tool for our conceptualization of abstract categories, its cognitive basis is schema, the principle which supports polysemy is the metaphoric reflection of schemas.

• 隐喻是我们对抽象范畴进行概念化的有力的认知工具，它的认知墓础是“意象图式”，支配一词多义关系的原则就是意象图式的隐喻映射.