英语释义

• express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol;

  "What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?"

• represent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols;

  "The poet symbolizes love in this poem"

  "These painters believed that artists should symbolize"

片语

typify代表；作为…的典型；具有…的特点

to stand for代表

英汉例句

• both events symbolise the fact that our actions have implications. that political decisions have consequences. that history is shaped not by fatality, but by what we do.

  这两件事都象征着我们的行动会造成影响。政治决定总会造成一些后果，决定历史的不是天命，而是我们的所作所为。

• in the middle ages, men wore them to symbolise their courage and virility.

  中世纪，男人们佩戴鉆石，作为勇敢和刚强的象征。

• the flag then, appears to symbolise both independence and unity.

  这个其实之后逐步当做象征独立和统一的象征。

• irises symbolise friendship, surrounded by a halo of ivy, which stands for endurance and dependence.

  鸢尾花象征友谊，围绕着常春藤——象征忍耐和依赖。

• he has marshalled small armies of 20-somethings to stand in continuous rotas in front of the supreme court to symbolise the helplessness of the aborted child.

  他集结了一群20岁左右的人，组成一个小部队，轮流站在最高法院前面，象征着被流产的孩子的无助。

• adapted from a military design for the civilian market, the hummer came to symbolise the ultimate gas-guzzler.

  悍马是从军事设计改装的民用车型，也是目前耗油量最大的车型。

• the manager, who has won 26 trophies in 24 years at old trafford, has refused to criticise fans wearing gold and green scarves, which symbolise opposition to the glazers, saying 「all sinners welcome」.

  24年时间里在老特拉福德夺得26座奖杯的主教练弗格森拒绝评论穿着黄绿相间围巾的球迷。 这样的穿着是对格雷泽家族的反对。

• it is drawn from the name of the restaurant where the leaders originally met, but was clearly chosen to symbolise a clarion call to croats to wake up, and vote for them.

  其名称起源于政党领袖最早集会的餐馆名，但无疑也是借此意思热烈号召克罗地亚人觉醒起来，为他们投票。

• in that case, the term social entrepreneur, whatever it means, will no longer be necessary—but its disappearance from the dictionary will symbolise its triumph.

  在那样的情况下，社会企业家（不管是什么意思）这个词就没有存在的必要了。然而，从字典中被抹去正好昭示了它的胜利。

• gm found a buyer for its hummer sport-utility vehicle brand, which came to symbolise the company’s fondness for gas-guzzling cars.

  通用公司为其多功能运动型汽车品牌悍马找好买家，悍马代表了通用公司对耗油汽车的偏爱。

• the rematch renews a battle that began in 1984 in an epic series of world title games that lasted five months and came to symbolise the competing forces then at play in the soviet union.

  两人的再次对决让人回想起了1984年的那场史诗般的棋王争霸赛，那场比赛耗时五个月，并象征着随后在苏联内部上演的各股势力之间的明争暗斗。

• guantánamo bay came to symbolise the injustice of the bush era as hundreds were detained without prisoner-of-war or civilian protection as the us unilaterally redefined its legal obligations.

  当美国单方面重新定义它的法律义务，将数百人在得不到战俘或平民权利保护情况下监禁在关塔那摩时，「 关塔那摩」就成为布什时代不正义的象征。

• that’s why in modern architecture conic roofs are often used. they symbolise a mansi tent.

  由于圆锥屋顶象征着曼西帐篷，故经常用于现代建筑当中。

• if a company known for selling indulgence wants to reinvent itself to symbolise wellness, does that not send mixed messages to the consumer?

  如果一个以推销放纵着称的公司将自己重塑为推销健康的公司，消费者就不会收到好坏混合的信息吗？

• they were considered holy trees by the celts and often symbolise death and resurrection in christianity – due to their ability to sprout again and put on new growth.

  它们具有抽芽长叶，重新焕发生机的能力，因而曾被凯尔特人视为圣树，并常作为基督教中死亡和复活的象征。

• elsewhere students carried coffins to symbolise the death of affordable education.

  在其他地方，学生还扛着棺木，以此象征可承受教育的死亡。

• their lone efforts symbolise the best hope for indigenous australia's future.

  他们唯一的努力象征着澳大利亚未来的最好希望。

• meaning: homes in dreams symbolise ourselves and different rooms are aspects of our character.

  解梦：梦中的自己家象征着我们自身，不同的房门代表了我们性格的不同侧面。

• dakar, newscore - wearing white to symbolise purity, worshippers throughout this african capital gathered to pray on one of the final nights of ramadan.

  达喀尔，新闻报导—这个非洲国家的礼拜者们穿上代表纯洁的白色衣服聚集在首都，一起在斋月的最后一天祷告。

• harry potter star daniel radcliffe joins the 9 per cent who sported an aquiline nose, said to symbolise a cool tactician with a business mind.

  《哈利波特》影星丹尼尔雷德克里夫长着一只鹰钩鼻，这类人占到9%。鹰钩鼻被认为象征着有商业头脑的冷静谋士。

• the completion of the m25 now seems to symbolise the high-water mark of thatcherism.

  现在看来m25公路的完工似乎标志着撒切尔主义的鼎盛记忆。

• critics even complain that mcdonald’s, whose golden arches symbolise calorie excess, should not have been allowed to sponsor the world cup.

  反对者甚至抱怨，麦当劳的金色拱门象征超标的卡路里，不应该让它赞助世界杯。

• his restoration will be largely symbolic, since he never let power shift out of his hands. but it does, nevertheless, symbolise a reversal, rather than a forward movement.

  复位有着重大的象征意义，尽管普京从不让权力流出他的掌心，但无独有偶，权力还是会外流，而这象征的不是进步而是后退。