It's very strange to have a symbol system that operates in ways that are fundamentally different from the thing being symbolized.

象征体的运作方式与其所象征的体系根本不同，这很奇怪。

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The sandal is actually quite uncomfortable unless you're hiding in a bunker and have bigger worries, is the official symbol of the struggle.

这种塑料凉鞋，除非你躲藏在暗堡里担惊受怕，否则穿着不会舒服，但它却是官方战争时代的象征。

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Cycads have become a symbol of luck and health.

苏铁已成为幸运和健康的象征。

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It is a symbol of their belief in waiting until marriage to have sex.

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If you're writing a one line function, whose sole purpose in life is addition, and, clearly, this is about addition, well, then it's, in fact, A reasonable to use a shorter symbol like A, but I do have to specify it's type.

如果你在写一个一行的函数，它唯一的目的是,做加法，显然这是关于加法的，好的，实际上，用一个短的标识符是合理的，像，但是我必须指明它的类型。

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It may mean something different and this is sort of just stupid re-use of syntax although frankly it wouldn't really be much fun to have yet a symbol so they went with the same symbol which is pretty reasonable in the context *a of a function prototype this just means *a expect A to be the address of an int and expect B to be the address of an int.

这里的意思有点不同,这是为了重使用的目的,虽然这个符号没有什么意义,所以在函数原型中，他们就使用了相同的符号,这只是表示，期望,是一个int型的地址,期望b是一个int型的地址。

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