泰勒说，自我强加的失眠“在某种程度上已经成为一种地位的象征”， 用这种方法来证明自己有多么强大和高效是具有误导性的。

Self-imposed sleeplessness has "become a bit of a status symbol", says Taylor, a misguided measure to prove how powerful and productive you are.

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对于那些竭力自我显示的国家和人民来说，修建高大雄伟的大坝即是某种成就的象征，然而修建大坝其实并没有多大作用。

It doesn't help that building a big, powerful dam has become a symbol of achievement for nations and people striving to assert themselves.

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它代表了雅芳赋予女人力量的自我理念，也是钟彬娴个人职业攀升经历的象征。

It is a symbol both of Avon's self-proclaimed mission to empower women and of Ms Jung's own high-heeled ascent to the corner office.

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And the ego -- the emergence of the ego for Freud -- symbolizes the origin of consciousness.

因而在弗洛伊德的理论中-,自我的出现象征着意识的起源。

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