In English, there is not a consistent one-to-one match between each written symbol and each distinct spoken sound.

在英语中，每一个书写符号和每一个独特的发音之间不存在固定的一一对应关系。

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A security token can be any value but is typically a symbol, a canonical string that does not exist anywhere else.

一个安全令牌可以是任何值，但通常是一个不在其他地方存在的符号或者规范的字符串。

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Which is interesting, but might not be that important. Answering polling questions in the presence of a powerful symbol is not the same as voting.

一个有趣但不重要的发现是，在强有力的符号之前回答问卷和投票并不相同。

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What matters is that McDonald's is a symbol of junk food, the product of an American-led globalisation threatening not just France's traditions but everyone else's too.

ECONOMIST: The French farmers�� anti-global hero

But there is more to it than that - the Wall was not just a symbol of defeat - but of collaboration.

BBC: Hitler's Atlantic Wall: Should France preserve it?

It is a political totem, a symbol that euro-using countries will not cheat each other.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne