Symbol

(noun.) something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible; 'the eagle is a symbol of the United States'.

(noun.) an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance.

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• She is represented upon her monuments in masculine garb, and with a long beard as a symbol of wisdom. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But in the vernacular, the mind proceeds directly from the symbol to the thing signified. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• If Machiavelli is a symbol of the political theorist making reason an instrument of purpose, we may take Sorel as a self-conscious representative of the impulses which generate purpose. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• This odd little symbol spins gaily round the world; it seems incredible that men would have invented and made a pet of it twice over. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Prince ceased to be a single and secretive Machiavellian schemer, and became merely the crowned symbol of a Machiavellian scheme. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He has become the type and symbol for all such interchanges. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• You may take him as a symbol of the political theorist. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The point of interest is that Plato should have used such a symbol, and that so much of the Pythagorean spirit should have prevailed in him. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• He died rather as a symbol than as a man. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Still later, the stern sky denies that it ever wore so benign a symbol of hope. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Even now, she could not admit, to Ursula, that she wanted to keep it, as a memento, or a symbol. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• That peasant is more than a symbol of the privacy of human interest: he is a warning against the incurable romanticism which clings about the idea of a revolution. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• There is scarcely anything that we can suppose to be a religious or mystical symbol at all in his productions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This figure was either regarded as the god or as the image or symbol of the god, for whose worship the temple existed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It must be used because it is a symbol of the collective life of mankind in general. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• It is only by the use of words as symbols that scientific thought is possible. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• There are names, and Christian symbols, and prayers, or sentences expressive of Christian hopes, carved upon nearly every sarcophagus. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• These were but the outward and visible symbols of his westering tendencies. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In 1837 Dalton wrote: Berzelius's symbols are horrifying: a young student in chemistry might as soon learn Hebrew as make himself a cquainted with them. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• We move amidst generalities and symbols . 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Here are the symbols. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• For words, theories, symbols, slogans, abstractions of all kinds are nothing but the porous vessels into which life flows, is contained for a time, and then passes through. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The symbols are thus made by deviations from the straight line, of different lengths and of varied combinations. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• A group of symbols, such as this, expressing a molecule of a compound is called a _formula_. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Mr. Morse's telegraph is a recording instrument, that embosses the symbols upon paper, with a point pressed down upon it by an electro-magnet. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• It was considered a great advantage of this telegraph at the time, that it exhibited actual letters of the alphabet, instead of symbols. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• They arrest growth on a low plane, the plane of specific physical symbols. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But in an advanced culture much which has to be learned is stored in symbols. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The pupil learns symbols without the key to their meaning. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Written symbols are even more artificial or conventional than spoken; they cannot be picked up in accidental intercourse with others. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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