他以酒精象征狭隘、消极和罪恶。

He USES alcohol as a signifier of the petty, the negative and the evil.

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很明显，从这个角度来看，影片想向我们传达“没有人是清白的”这一主题，而神秘男子则象征着贪婪与罪恶。

At this point, it seems clear enough that the film wants to tell us "no one is innocent" and that the mysterious man symbolizes greed and guilt.

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此外，文章还对蚂蚁、苍蝇的象征意义做了分析，并将本文的构思和写作风格与鲁迅的另一篇文章《智识即罪恶》进行了比较。

Moreover, this paper also analyzes the symbolic meanings of the ant and the fly and compares After Death with another article of Lu Xun-Intelligence is Evil-in terms of their conception and style.

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He permits a real character like Satan to interact with a merely allegorical or symbolic character like Sin. The effect for Johnson - and who can say that this is -- that Johnson is wrong?

他允许一个真实的角色如撒旦与仅仅是寓言中才出现的,或只具备象征的意义的人物如罪恶之神互动,谁又能说约翰逊是错的呢？

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