蜡烛既是生命和死亡的象征，也是希望和恐惧的象征。

Candles are symbols of both life and death, as well as both hope and fear.

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最坏的事情是千万不要把筷子竖直着插在饭碗里因为这在古代是死亡的象征。

And the worst thing you can do with your chopsticks is stick them standing up straight in your rice bowl because that is the ancient Chinese symbol for death.

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我有个浪漫的想法，将在我身上栽一棵树，这不仅是我死亡的象征，我的身体实轮回移居到树上。

I have this romantic idea that I'll have a tree planted on me. It won't just be symbolic of my death; my atoms will actually be transmigrated into the tree.

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They can live there until the death of the high priest, and the death of the high priest symbolically serves to purge or remove the blood guilt or impurity of the accidental homicide.

他们可以住在那里直到大祭司死去，大祭司的死亡象征着净化,或移除这个意外杀人者的罪孽或不洁。

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