(Recording) Keita says the 28th of September is now more than just a symbolic day simply marking the anniversary of Guinea's independence.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

He permits a real character like Satan to interact with a merely allegorical or symbolic character like Sin. The effect for Johnson - and who can say that this is -- that Johnson is wrong?

他允许一个真实的角色如撒旦与仅仅是寓言中才出现的,或只具备象征的意义的人物如罪恶之神互动,谁又能说约翰逊是错的呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It was a symbolic beginning to a day of ceremony and discussions.

VOA: standard.2009.04.04

Jacob Milgrom sees a moral message at the base of this complex, symbolic picture. And that is that humans and humans alone are responsible for the rein of wickedness and death or the rein of righteousness and life.

米尔格罗姆在这这个复杂的基础上看出了一个道德上的信息，一副象征性的图画，那就是人类,应该单独承担起驾驭邪恶与死亡,正义和生存之间的责任。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

World leaders and dignitaries have gathered to join in the 20th anniversary celebrations, which include open air concerts, fireworks,and the symbolic collapse of a wall of brightly painted oversize dominoes.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

What the whole note is, what all these symbols are are simply representations of duration so we have a symbolic language here that's going to represent the horizontal axis the axis of duration.

什么是全音符,这些符号又都是什么呢,这些就是简单代表了持续时间,因此我们这里有一套符号语言,来代表横轴,就是时值的那条轴

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

The Nobel Peace Prize is clearly a symbolic gesture.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

But in a symbolic protest of what the State Department Wednesday termed Iran's appalling and deplorable treatment of election protestors, it is withdrawing invitations for Iranian diplomats to attend traditional U.S.embassy Fourth of July parties.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24