【正确答案】正确答案：The examples of metaphorical use of words from the realm of spending and finance are as follows; 1)We are wasting our time here. 2)I will spend my whole life taking care of you. 3)She is extremely busy, so she has to budget her time carefully. Metaphor is more than just a speech of figure. We speak in metaphors because we think in metaphors. A conceptual metaphor consists of two conceptual domains, in which the target domain is understood in relation to the source domain. In the sentences mentioned above, the metaphorical use of the verbs(waste, spend and budget)are related to the concrete financial meanings. All of the three examples are based on the same metaphor " time is money. " Time shares some similarities with money. For example, both of them can be considered as a limited and valuable resource to fulfill human"s demands. That is why time can be wasted, spent, budgeted, invested or even squandered.

【答案解析】解析：考查词汇的隐喻用法。隐喻不仅是一种语言修辞手段，而且是一种重要的思维方式，是形成人类概念系统的重要手段。隐喻涉及到两个概念的对比，其本质是人们以一种事物来理解和体验另一种事物。即用具体的概念来理解抽象的概念。隐喻包含目标域和源域，目标域是隐喻所描述的经验，源域是人们用来描述经验的方法。在认知语言学里，隐喻的简单表达式为：“X是Y”，X为目标域，Y为源域。例如本题中所提到的“He invested a lot of time in the project”一句，它就是基于“时间是金钱”这一隐喻的。时间具有与金钱相似的特征，如物质性，是人们用以实现目标的有限资源。人们将时间视作金钱，时间就成为一种可以花费、浪费、预算、投资、节约甚至可以挥霍的东西。在这个隐喻中，目标域“时间”正是通过源域“金钱”来进行识别和了解的。