旗帜的支持者表示，这面旗帜是南方的历史象征。

Flag supporters say the flag is a symbol of the South's history.

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利玛窦入华作为一个代表，作为一个历史象征，反映了中西初识之时接触时的互动、碰撞、吸纳、排斥；

Matteo·Ricc enters China as a representative, symbolizes as a history, reflect the exchange when the Chinese and Western contacts for the first time, collide, receive, repel.

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我可曾知道关于许多印第安人，包括那些祖先们从来没有戴过头饰的，却把戴头饰当作作为印第安人的骄傲的象征的人的历史？

Did I even know the history of how the headdress was accepted by many Native Americans as a symbol of Indian-ness to be worn with pride, even by those whose ancestors never wore them?

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Yeats saw history in symbolic and mystical terms.

他以象征主义和神秘主义看历史。

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So Collins suggests that the poem in Exodus 15 is celebrating and preserving a historical memory of an escape from or a defeat of Pharaoh and that the drowning image is used metaphorically as it is elsewhere in Hebrew poetry to describe the Egyptians' humiliation and defeat.

所以Collins，指出在《出埃及记》15中的诗中,是对逃脱或者打败法老统治的这一历史性时刻的庆祝,溺水这一画面被赋予象征意义，就像犹太诗中,经常出现描写埃及人被打败被侮辱的场景一样。

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