I know what you're thinking: Just what is symbolic thought?

我知道你正在想：“象征性思维”到底是什么东西？

youdao

I would claim this is still in the space of symbolic reasoning and symbolic hypothesis generation.

我可以这么说，这种方式仍旧在象征性思考和象征性假说的生成方面使用。

youdao

I wish we had a symbolic programming language I could think in better and keep in my head.

我希望我们能有一种符号式编程语言，这样我就能够更好地用其进行思考并将其记在我的脑海中了。

youdao

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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Oh, and the sandwich board guy got hired, as symbolic as anything I can think of, though obviously not very empirical.

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Mr. CHRISTOPH SCHULT (Der Spiegel): Well, first of all, I think it's symbolic that we, for the first time, have a woman as a chancellor.

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