+Adam Black The connections are conceptual or abstractions of
   their original form. (I also got the list from a Chinese English
   learning site; being natively removed from "thinking in
   English", I believe, allows them a greater ability to see the
   abstractions than we can being native speakers) Here's an
   example off the top of my head - let's see if it meshes: Pursuit
   of money is the root of evil. MOVEMENT / COMMODITY / PLANT /
   MORALITY You can pursue a robber (chasing is movement) Money is
   commodity. Root is part of a Plant Evil is a moral judgement.
   All VERY different things by themselves.* Yet, we can put them
   together to form analogies that we instantly understand.