We don't want to be associated with something as symbolic and hateful as a swastika.

我们不想和纳粹十字这样象征明显、代表仇恨的东西联系起来。

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

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He permits a real character like Satan to interact with a merely allegorical or symbolic character like Sin. The effect for Johnson - and who can say that this is -- that Johnson is wrong?

他允许一个真实的角色如撒旦与仅仅是寓言中才出现的,或只具备象征的意义的人物如罪恶之神互动,谁又能说约翰逊是错的呢？

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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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Will Google Earth and its like ever have as symbolic a role in our culture as the old-fashioned atlas or globe?

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But more than that, buyback allows us to indulge in the usually dangerous feeling that, in the wake of a crisis that scares and offends us, we must do something on as sweeping and symbolic a level as possible, usually.

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As firefighters sadly saluted a new group of human remains uncovered at ground zero, New York City officials postponed plans to reopen a symbolic skyscraper a few feet away.

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