中文摘要：

隐喻由最初的修辞手法逐渐演变为一种科学方法,被运用到许多学科的研究和解释中。并且,随着科学研究逐渐呈现复杂性、综合性、抽象性的特点与趋势,隐喻方法也被引入系统科学的研究中,成为其概念刻画和理论描述的重要工具。因此,从隐喻思想的发展和功能、隐喻在系统科学中的工作机制及其有效性方面探讨系统科学知识是怎样通过隐喻方法被表征的,就具有重要的方法论意义。

英文摘要：

Metaphor is gradually developed into a scientific method from the initial rhetorical devices,which has been applied to many subjects for researching and interpreting. With the scientific research representing the characteristics and trend of complexity, comprehensive and abstract, metaphor has been introduced into the research of system science, and which has become an important tool for the description of concept and theory. So it＇ s important to discuss how the knowledge of system science is represented by means of metaphor from the aspects of development and function of metaphor, work mechanisms and effectiveness of metaphor in knowledge representation.