It was a symbolic act, indicating that under Grune's leadership, Reader's Digest was going to be different.

这是一个象征性的举动，表明在格鲁恩的领导下，《读者文摘》将会有所不同。

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People threw flowers into the river between the two countries as a symbolic act of brotherhood.

人们把花扔进两国之间的河里，以此作为兄弟情谊的象征性的行为。

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This reads the target of a symbolic link.

这个函数会读取一个符号链接的目标。

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He also visited a hospital, a symbolic stop designed to highlight American support for development efforts in Africa.

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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。

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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

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In a symbolic move, Yanai declared earlier this year that English is Uniqlo's official corporate language.

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But from a symbolic standpoint, the victory would have been nice for the Knicks.

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Dan Lungren, a Republican of California, a conservative, made a symbolic attempt to beat him.

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