The film is an iconoclastic allegory. 电影是一个关于破坏的寓言。
This is relayed to Montag as an allegory of society. 孟泰格将此视作社会的讽喻。
The blindfolded figure with scales is an allegory of justice. 蒙着眼睛手执天平的形象象征着正义。
allegory
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a short moral story (often with animal characters)
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a visible symbol representing an abstract idea
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an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor
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Allegory \Al"le*go*ry\, n.; pl. {Allegories}. [L. allegoria, Gr. ?, description of one thing under the image of another; ? other + ? to speak in the assembly, harangue, ? place of assembly, fr. ? to assemble: cf. F. all['e]gorie.] 1. A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.
2. Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem.
3. (Paint. & Sculpt.) A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.
Syn: Metaphor; fable.
Usage: {Allegory}, {Parable}. ``An allegory differs both from fable and parable, in that the properties of persons are fictitiously represented as attached to things, to which they are as it were transferred. . . . A figure of Peace and Victory crowning some historical personage is an allegory. ``I am the Vine, ye are the branches'' [--John xv. 1-6] is a spoken allegory. In the parable there is no transference of properties. The parable of the sower [--Matt. xiii. 3-23] represents all things as according to their proper nature. In the allegory quoted above the properties of the vine and the relation of the branches are transferred to the person of Christ and His apostles and disciples.'' --C. J. Smith.
Note: An allegory is a prolonged metaphor. Bunyan's ``Pilgrim's Progress'' and Spenser's ``Fa["e]rie Queene'' are celebrated examples of the allegory. ※ ||
In Moscow, the newspaper exchange was seen as an allegory for the struggle between Gorbachev and Ligachev.
Then we were given the contemporary Romanian play Vlad the Impaler, a quasi-historical piece about that prince, begetter of Dracula and allegory of Ceausescu; and the Russian Yerofeev's Moscow Train, that ran through wild country to Moscow Station.
One can just about read into the text a political allegory: either French and English-speaking Canada should stick together despite their differences, or that Quebec should get on with the separation. The flaw is the absence of action.
A more pessimistic allegory can hardly be imagined.
Filmed in rural England, the Welsh moors, Northern California and in glacial regions of New Zealand, "Willow" is in some ways typical Lucas allegory.
Something of greater contrast - perhaps La voix humaine - was needed, and the dialogue of Poulenc's domestic allegory, based on a play by Apollinaire, lost its spice in German translation.
In October, the authorities banned his staging of "Suksesi" ("Succession"), an allegory that most theatergoers interpreted as an attack on the wealth and power of President Suharto's children.