lead to 導(dǎo)致
    釋義
    If something leads to a situation or event, usually an unpleasant one, it begins a process which causes that situation or event to happen.
    例句
    Racial prejudice among the republics could lead to civil war.
    GRE
    Ironically, the proper use of figurative language must be based on the denotative meaning of the words, because it is the failure to recognize this literal meaning that leads to mixed metaphors and their attendant incongruity.
    充滿諷刺意味的是，比喻性語言的恰當(dāng)使用必須建立在理解單詞確切含義的基礎(chǔ)上，因?yàn)檎怯捎谖茨苷J(rèn)識(shí)到單詞的字面意思才導(dǎo)致混亂的比喻，因而造成比喻上的牛頭不對(duì)馬嘴。