| The Lord of the Flies contains many examples of symbolism which Golding has incorporated to show a deeper level to the main, mostly straightforward, storyline that reveals his thoughts on the nature of humanity and evil. |
飞虫帝国中有许多具有象征意义的比喻。作者哥丁将其融入到主要的故事情节中，虽然大多是极简单易懂的，以此揭示他对人性和邪恶本质的思考。 |
| Below are some of the main symbols used in the book, but there are plenty more for you to discover yourself. |
以下是书中使用的一些主要的象征隐喻，书中还有很多等待你的发现。 |
| Among such symbols may be included such small or natural seeming events like the coral reef, (Submarine warfare, surrounding of Britain by German U-boats?) or the "great fire", which may represent the first world war, ("We shall never commit to this savagery again"). |
在这些象征中，可能包括了很多看似微小或自然的时间，比如珊瑚礁，隐喻（潜艇战，德国U型潜艇包围英国）或者“大火”，可能代表第一次世界大战，（“我们绝不能再次向这种野蛮行径拖鞋”）。 |
| Blood is another symbol Golding uses extensively, although what he uses it for is open to interpretation. |
血液是哥丁广泛使用的另一个隐喻，尽管他如此实用的目的还有待进一步的解释。 |
| The different styles of leadership shown by Jack and Ralph symbolize democracy and dictatorship, much like as depicted in George Orwell's Animal Farm where he used pigs to symbolize the USSR's communist leaders. |
杰克和拉尔夫表现出的不同领导风格象征着民主和独裁，就像乔治奥威尔在《动物农场》中用猪象征苏联共产主义领导人一样。 |
| The imaginary beast that frightens all the boys stands for the primal instinct of savagery that exists within all human beings. |
这个让所有男孩都感到恐惧的假想野兽代表着人类最原始的野蛮本能。 |
| The boys are afraid of the beast, but only Simon reaches the realization that they fear the beast because it exists within each of them. |
男孩们惧怕野兽，但是西门却可以清晰地意识到他们惧怕野兽是因为，这野兽竟然寄生在他们所有人的内心之中。 |
| As the boys grow more savage, their belief in the beast grows stronger. |
随着男孩们越来越野蛮，他们心中对野兽的信仰也越来越坚定。 |
| By the end of the novel, the boys are leaving it sacrifices and treating it as a totemic god. |
在小说的结尾，男孩们为它献上祭品并尊崇它为图腾之神。 |
| The boys’ behavior is what brings the beast into existence, so the more savagely the boys act, the more real the beast seems to become. |
实际上男孩们的行为才是把野兽带到现实的导火索，所以当孩子们表现的越野蛮，野兽就变得越真实。 |
| The boys "become" the beast when they kill Simon. |
男孩们将最终成为野兽，当他们杀死西门时。 |
| Golding describes the savages' behavior as animal like; the savages dropped their spears (man's tool) and "screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws." |
哥丁将野蛮人的行为描述为动物般的行为；野蛮人扔掉长矛（人类的工具），“尖叫、殴打、撕咬。没有语言，没有动作，只有牙齿和爪子的撕咬。” |
