A pictorial representation of numerical data or relationships, especially a graph, but having each value represented by a proportional number of pictures.
统计图表，象形图用图画表现数字的信息或关系，尤指图表，但用有比例的一定数字的图画来代表每种价值
The pretty girl on the cover of the pictorial is just a sales gimmick.
画报的封面上印上美女不过是吸引顾客的一种生意眼。
A literary, dramatic, or pictorial device in which characters and events stand for abstract ideas, principles, or forces, so that the literal sense has or suggests a parallel, deeper symbolic sense.
寓言，讽喻一种文学、戏剧或绘画的艺术手法，其中人物和事件代表抽象的观点、原则或支配力，从而使表面含义含有或表达一种对等的，但更深刻的象征意义
