In Gnosticism, it symbolizes the soul of the world.

衔尾蛇符号在诺斯替教中象征着世界之魂。

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And our soul, the American soul, and I think the soul of the world is distorted right now.

我觉得，我们的灵魂，美国的灵魂，甚至世界的灵魂此时此刻都是扭曲的。

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That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for its entrance?

压迫着我的到底是我想要走出的灵魂呢？还是那世界的灵魂，敲着我的心门，想要进来呢？

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And what happens in these experiences is that your soul leaves this room and goes into a second room, the room of the next world or the next life, but for various reasons, isn't allowed to stay in the next room.

而在这些经历里发生的就是,你的灵魂离开这个房间,到达第二个房间,代表另一个世界或来世的房间,但出于各种原因,你的灵魂不能留在另一个房间里

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When Plato asked himself how could that be, the answer he gave is, well, it's got to be we were previous acquainted with the forms before our life in this world, and that shows that the soul must be something that existed prior to the creation of the body.

柏拉图问自己这究竟是怎么回事，他给出的答案是,我们有生命以前就,已经熟悉了这些形式，这就表明灵魂是在,身体存在之前就已经具有的了。

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Hollywood captures the celluloid soul of the American dream and exports it around the world.

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The texture of the pages combine with the smell of ink and paper, as the writer pours their imagination and soul into a world that's apart from your own.

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Barcelona is the soul of Catalonia and a modern, world-class destination.

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