“这是一种新形式的罢工，一个极具象征性的事件，”上海师范大学教授刘诚表示，他曾在2008年《劳动法》起草过程中担任外部顾问。

"It is a new form of strike - a very symbolic event," said Liu Cheng, a professor at Shanghai Normal University and an outside adviser in the drafting of the 2008 Labour law.

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有些学者认为，像手杖这样的物品只是王权的普通象征罢了，图坦卡蒙的脚部损坏也许是在木乃伊制作过程中产生的。

Some have argued that such staffs were common symbols of power and that the damage to Tutankhamun's foot may have occurred during the mummification process.

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在过去城市建筑更替过程中保存下来为数不多的老四合院，现在成为了这个国家正在兴起的上流社会以及一些富有的外国投资者们身份地位的象征。

The few ancient courtyard houses that survived destruction have become coveted status symbols for the country's growing upper class and for wealthy foreign investors.

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Well, apparently Richard in real life did not refuse to make those changes. And imagine, in a book that then undergoes this publishing history that I have described, this is kind of a symbolic scene.

很明显，现实生活中的理查,并没有拒绝那些修改,想像一下，经历上述出版过程的一本书，这是象征性的场景。

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