As it now stands, the League is but a symbol of international accord, and the opposition to it - with Senator Lodge as the villain - is just an inchoate obstructive force.

按照现在的情况，联盟只是国际协议的一个象征，包括作为恶人的参议员洛奇在内的反对派只是不成熟的阻力。

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Americans mostly consume Coke out of aluminum or plastic today, but the glass bottle remains a symbol of America that's readily recognized around the world.

如今，美国人喝的可乐大多是铝制或塑料瓶装的，但玻璃瓶仍然是美国的象征，这在全世界都备受认可。

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America's national symbol, the bald eagle, almost went extinct twenty years ago, but it has made a comeback.

美国的国家象征秃头鹰在20年前几乎都灭绝了，但它的数量最终有所恢复。

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Not by some very arcane numeric address inside my computer's memory, but by a symbol, by a name.

不是通过一些在我电脑内存中的神秘的数字地址,而是通过一个符号，一个名字。

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If you're writing a one line function, whose sole purpose in life is addition, and, clearly, this is about addition, well, then it's, in fact, A reasonable to use a shorter symbol like A, but I do have to specify it's type.

如果你在写一个一行的函数，它唯一的目的是,做加法，显然这是关于加法的，好的，实际上，用一个短的标识符是合理的，像，但是我必须指明它的类型。

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And most of these commands you don't actually need but this little caret symbol means control, so every keyboard these days has a control key so you hold that and hit X for instance to exit the program.

这里大多数命令你们都用不着,这个小插入符意味着控制，每个键盘都有一个控制键,譬如，当你敲入X时，就退出这个程序。

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But a symbol she certainly is.

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"Respecting and caring for the elderly is not only a Chinese tradition, but also a symbol of national civilization and progress, " he said.

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But as America and Russia have learned, when something goes wrong and men and women die as a result, that attention is then focused not on a national technological triumph, but on a symbol of humiliating failure.

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