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。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

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

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The man is not a real man, the man is a symbol; only this time, a symbol of the real, a symbol of the actual and local of the Irish race and the reality.

这个人不是真正的人而是象征;,只是这次是真实的象征,是爱尔兰民族本地的,和真实存在的象征。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

These are spelled out in Leviticus 18 and Leviticus 20, those two chapters. Besides defiling the sinner, moral impurity symbolically defiles various sancta, especially the sanctuary, but also God's name and also the Holy Land itself.

这些都在《利未记》十八章和二十章里讲清楚了，除了玷污人使人变得有罪，道德上的不洁从象征意义上玷污了各层圣所，尤其是最外面那层圣所，同时也玷污了上帝的名字,和“圣地“这个名字。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

s very interesting if you go back and you read about al-Qaeda, one of the things that you read about is that Arabs, after World War Two saw the United States as standing for values of liberty and democracy and equality.

有一点很有趣，It’,如果你回头读读看看关于基地组织的报道，肯定不难发现,二战以后，阿拉伯人,将美国视为,自由，民主，平等的象征。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选