'Symbolic gestures aren't enough. It has to be substantive.'

象征性的举动还不够，必须是实质性的。

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The signings were more inroads in the search not for symbolic gestures but for meaningful influence and development.

签约现在困难了许多，因为寻找的球员不是一种象征，而是要能真正意义上给球队以影响与提高。

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For Protestants, the sacraments are merely symbolic gestures, whereas Catholics believe that by performing these rites they actually receive divine grace.

对于新教徒来说，圣事仅仅是象征性的举动，而天主教徒则认为他们通过举行这些仪式就真的得到了圣恩。

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Then there are the symbolic gestures or emblematic gestures that have a meaning or provide a piece of information.

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The White House has made substantial symbolic gestures, but through Obama family members and appointees rather than the president himself.

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The Democrats are the party of using regulation to gain control of the American economy and the American people, and to make symbolic gestures.

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