无遮盖的人体画像，有时具有讽喻意义。

The undraped human figure,sometimes allegorical.

可能是某人以讽喻的口气，刻下此话暗示文化的死亡。

It could be someone in a kind of an allegorical mood inscribing on the gravestone the death of culture.

后来人们根据这个笑话引申出郑人买履这句成语，讽喻那些只相信教条，不顾客观实际的人。

Later, this joke gave rise to the idiom, the man from Zheng buys shoes, which satirize those who only believe in dogma and who dont consider objective reality.

这是一本最棒的讽喻类小说来阐释19世纪俄国贵族社会的荒淫无度，个人道德品格败坏的全般现象。每一个人物都代表了一个管制阶级。

This is of the best allegorical novels to explain the fractured nature of 19th century Russia. Each character is representative of one of the ruling classes.