Nemur said (1) it [an I. Q. – Ю.Г.] was something that measured how intelligent you were – like a scale in the drugstore weighs pounds. But Dr. Strauss had a big argument with him and said an I. Q. didn’t weigh intelligence at all. He said (2) an I. Q. showed how much intelligence you could get, like the numbers on the outside of a measuring cup. You still had to fill the cup up with stuff.
Примеры метафор - на языке оригинала (русском или английском). При нажатии на треугольную кнопку (в левом поле карточек) открывается перевод на второй из этих языков.