现代语言学认为隐喻不仅是一种语言现象,它其实还是一种认知现象,是人类思维的一种方式。隐喻与言语有关,而言语最终又与思想有关。本文尝试使用隐喻的概念对赫斯顿的代表作《他们眼望上苍》进行分析,以期从另外一个角度审视文本,深入挖掘文学文本的内涵。 Modern linguistics holds that metaphor is not only a linguistic phenomenon, but it is actually a cognitive phenomenon and a way of human thinking. Metaphor is related to speech, which in turn is related to thought. This article tries to use the concept of metaphor to analyze Heston’s masterpiece, “They See God,” with a view to examine the text from another angle and dig out the connotation of the literary text.