在今天的物质世界，赚钱或成为有钱人象征着一个人的成功和能力。

In today's material world, making money or becoming wealthy symbolizes a person's success and capability.

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提供的食物象征着这个场合，也反映了在场人的地位。

The food served symbolizes the occasion and reflects who is present.

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网络空间已成为计算机设备、网络、光纤电缆、无线连接和其他基础设施的象征，这些基础设施将互联网带给全世界数十亿人。

Cyberspace has become symbolic of the computing devices, networks, fibre-optic cables, wireless links and other infrastructure that bring the internet to billions of people around the world.

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He's the friend of women everywhere, at least for a few of his female readers in the eighteenth century, and for many he's the very embodiment of oppressive patriarchy.

他到处都有女人缘，至少在18世纪他有不少女性读者，但对很多人来说他是压抑的男权主义的象征。

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If you think that Americans have an image of what we stand for in the world and of what we do.

如果你认为美国人知道,自己在世界上象征了什么,知道自己在做什么。

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At a time when beards meant a great deal religiously, he's telling the men to shave off their beards.

在当时人们把大胡子当做虔诚的象征,彼得却叫人把胡子都刮了

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