It's a sign of the encroachment of commercialism in medicine.

这是营利主义入侵医学界的一种迹象。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Headaches may be a sign of stress.

头痛可能是紧张的迹象。

《牛津词典》

She nodded as a sign for us to sit down.

她点头示意我们坐下。

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No dear,Nature made you so perfectly that this small defect shocks me as being a sign of earthly imperfection."

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A Christmas tree, in other words, is a sign that can only be understood intelligibly in terms of a certain cultural understanding.

也就是说，它仅仅用于，也仅仅在一定的文化背景中,才能有意义，被理解。

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This is a sign of my economic status: I don't have to work. It is middle and lower-class women who do not get to observe purdah in this way.

但这恰好是我经济地位的标志：,我不需要工作，只有中下阶层的女人,才像这样不遵守深闺的习俗。

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But this was a sign of mass voting from Turkey, not of a freethinking boom.

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That was temporarily lifted in anticipation of the games and was taken as a sign of openness.

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The new baseball season starts on April 1 and is, as always, a sign of hope and renewal.

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