If might be an image, a comparison, the finding of likeness between unlike things which is at the heart of metaphor and simile making.

也可能是一个意象，一个对比，在不同之物中寻找到的相同点,而这也是隐喻和明喻的内涵。

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And a sign of the humans' importance is the fact that Humans are said to be created in the image of God, And this occurs in Genesis 1:26, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness."

另一个表明人类重要性的事实是,人类是依着上帝的模样创造的，这是《创世纪》第1章第26节中讲到，“让我们依着自己的模样造人，与我们相仿“

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