You also examine the immense variability of English and come to understand how it is used as a symbol of both individual identity and social connection.

你还研究了英语的巨大差异性，并开始理解它是如何被用作个人身份和社会联系的象征。

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Identifier — (a symbol that establishes the identity of the one bearing it).

identifier——(建立受体的身份的符号。)

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It may have once been a simple symbol of love but 13 per cent of women now believe it reflects their social status as well as identity and their fiance's career success.

戒指一直以来都被冠以“爱情的象征”的符号，而如今却越发具有“铜臭味”。13%的女士认为戒指代表了她们的社会地位与职场的成功能力。

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Due to pressure on land resources, urbanization and social transformations, the traditions and cultural practices associated to the Kaya settlements are fast diminishing, posing great danger to the social fabric and cohesiveness of the Mijikenda communities who venerate and celebrate them as their identity and symbol of continuity.

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Since Diners Club introduced the first universal credit card in 1950, an 8.5-by-5.5-cm piece of plastic has become for millions a modern symbol of identity and an indispensable tool of spending.

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But for millions of migrants to big cities like Istanbul or Izmir, the headscarf is a symbol of their identity.

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