疾病常常被用作隐喻,来使对社会腐败或不公正的指控显得活灵活现。传统的疾病隐喻主要是一种表达愤怒的方式;与现代隐喻相比.它们相对来说缺乏内容。以“政体”内部之感染这一常见的隐喻形式为本,莎士比亚发明了许多隐喻变体——不用费神在“传染”、“感染”、“脓肿”、“疮”、 Diseases are often used as metaphors to make the allegations of corruption or injustice in society appear to be vivid. Traditional disease metaphors are primarily a form of expressing anger; compared to modern metaphors, they are relatively lacking in content. Shakespeare invented many metaphorical variants based on the common metaphorical form of infection within the “regime.” - There is no need to bother with “contagion,” “infection,” “abscess,” “ sore”,