allegory

n.寓言；讽喻；寓意

The film is an iconoclastic allegory. 电影是一个关于破坏的寓言。

He opens his prophecy by describing a plague of locusts, an allegory of the disasters to come upon a faithless people. 他首次预言是关于蝗虫的灾害，这是一则对无信仰的人的灾难的寓言。

This is relayed to Montag as an allegory of society. 孟泰格将此视作社会的讽喻。