Iron hoes, which made the land more productive, and iron weapons, which made the warrior more powerful, had symbolic meaning in a number of West Africa societies.

铁制锄头使土地更高产，铁制武器使战士更强大，它们在许多非洲西部的部落中都拥有象征性意义。

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The assumed symbolic role of red ocher, said Dr. Henshilwood, comes from the large amounts of the predominantly red material found at a number of African sites as old as 160, 000 years.

亨希尔·伍德博士说，红色赭石的假设的象征性作用来自大量普遍的红色材料。这些在许多非洲遗址上发现的红色材料已达16万年之久。

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A number of symbolic links are then created that all point to the BusyBox utility.

然后创建了很多符号链接，它们都指向BusyBox工具。

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The federal minimum-wage law has always served a symbolic purpose beyond setting a specific number.

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The number 400 parts per million is symbolic of what many scientists believe to be the inevitable growth of this gas in our atmosphere, Shepherd said.

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But the move may be largely symbolic, as it does not seem to have had an impact on the number of people using The Pirate Bay.

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