It is a symbol of their belief in waiting until marriage to have sex.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

The rainbow is set up as a symbol of the eternal covenant, a token of the eternal reconciliation between the divine and human realms.

彩虹，作为契约生效的标志,标志着神与人之间的永久共存。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But if you can like, be stable enough to support the entire family, live on the Upper West Side, it's a class. It's a status symbol.

但如果你能住在上西区，让自己足够稳定，并能养活全家，那就是一种类似阶级一样的社会地位的象征了。

上西区的富人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

In this mystery,he is presented with a symbol tattooed on a hand.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

I will say that Milgrom has also argued that the dietary laws of Leviticus are similarly part of a symbol system that emphasizes life over death.

米尔格罗姆认为,饮食教规和一个象征系统是相似的,那个系统强调生存是超越死亡的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Marysville became a symbol for the destruction of the Feb.7 bushfires, a once vibrant community reduced to dust.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21

When you start describing the significance of a symbol like the tunnel, which recurs in the book, you immediately begin to limit it, and a symbol should go on deepening.

当你开始描述一个象征的意义,比如说在书中，反复出现的隧道，当你一开始予以限制，这个象征就会继续深化。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So at the very least, he can once again present himself as a symbol of hope for reconciliation between Islam and the West.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

It allows for this map between a symbol, say a spoken word, and any sort of thought we want to use.

语言允许在符号,比如说出的一个词,与我们想要使用的任何想法之间,存在着这种映射关系

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

For Indonesians, he says the U.S.President remains a symbol of America's promise of inclusion and equality.

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

Now for generations the Apology has stood out as a symbol for the violation of free expression.

几个世纪以来，《苏格拉底自辩篇》,象征着对自由表述的侵害。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

He says the exhibit is a symbol of partnership between the United States and Russia.

VOA: standard.2010.05.07

Not by some very arcane numeric address inside my computer's memory, but by a symbol, by a name.

不是通过一些在我电脑内存中的神秘的数字地址,而是通过一个符号，一个名字。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Critics argue it is a symbol of female servitude and against women's rights.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

What am I doing? I'm creating a list with just that special symbol none in it.

我在做什么？，我只是在创建一个,有着特殊标记。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Nonetheless,it is a symbol of collective African frustration at what AU sees as the refusal of the international community to hear its views on a matter involving Africa.

VOA: standard.2009.07.06

And, so, this is an entry path to see this, to see this thing brought down as a symbol of centralized oppression.

这正是观察集权压制,走向末路的一个切入点

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

"I understood very soon that this man didn't kill my son because he was my son, he killed him because he was a symbol, you know,of an occupying army.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

It's important for you guys to know that everything you write down in the notebook or blackboard as a symbol is actually a measured quantity.

其重要性就在于,你们要知道,你们记在本子上或者写在黑板上的任何物理符号,实际上都是测量量

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

Mr.Singh called the Kudankulam site a symbol of Russian-Indian cooperation in civilian nuclear power, adding that four more reactors will be built after a new site is identified in West Bengal.

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

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

"Historically it's one of the most important parts of the period of World War II in France,the roundup - the rafle du Vel dHiv - is a symbol of collaboration between the French police and the German occupying authorities."

VOA: standard.2010.04.10

So this symbol here is actually what we call a wave function.

这里的这个符号,实际上是一个波函数。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

"The Lost Symbol" takes place in Washington,D.C., over a period of just twelve hours.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

We have the convention of music of writing this symbol indicating the beat-carrying unit of four so I'm writing a four underneath each of these.

我们有一个约定俗成的书写格式,来表示四拍一单元,所以我在每行这里的下面写上一个四

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

And Theodore Roosevelt was a conservationist and symbol of the progressive spirit of America.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

And this is given a special symbol A nought.

而我们给它一个符号A上面加个。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

To grown-ups,he is a special symbol of good will and selfless giving.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

It's very hard not to see it as a symbol. What kind of symbol is it?

我们很难不去思考它的标志意义，那么，它究竟象征着什么呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead; inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.So love and loyalty to God is the foundation of the Torah but Torah is the fulfillment of this love and loyalty: studying it and observing it and teaching it and transmitting it.

也要系在手上为记号，戴在额上为经文,又要写在你房屋的门框上，并你的城门上,那么对上帝的爱和忠诚是律法卷的基础，但律法卷,是这种爱和忠诚的实现：学习它，观察它,教授它，传播它。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选