Benzon, in responding to Peter Railton’s post here at The Stone, points out the limits of this metaphor and proposes the “chess board and game” instead. I prefer a simple host-parasite analogy.

Benzon在The Stone论坛上回应Peter Railton的文章时指出了上述比喻的局限性，并提出了“棋盘和游戏”的比喻来代替，我更喜欢简单的主体-宿体的比方。

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