二者最大的区别是岩画没有表音功能，其符号在象征系统中不具有经常性和稳定性。

The biggest difference between the two is that the rock carvings have no phonetic function. The symbols have no fixed or regular meanings within an ideographic system.

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米尔·格罗姆认为，饮食教规和一个象征系统是相似的，那个系统强调生存是超越死亡的。

I will say that Milgrom has also argued that the dietary laws of Leviticus are similarly part of a symbol system that emphasizes life over death.

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《诗》之兴是一种隐喻，《易》之象与其有着相同的艺术功用，二者共同构成了中国文化最古老的象征系统。

The Xing of the Book of Song is a kind of metaphor and has the same artistic functions with the Xiiang of the Book of Changes, the two forms the oldest symbol system of Chinese culture together.

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I will say that Milgrom has also argued that the dietary laws of Leviticus are similarly part of a symbol system that emphasizes life over death.

米尔格罗姆认为,饮食教规和一个象征系统是相似的,那个系统强调生存是超越死亡的。

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So, you can have a kind of system of symbols that's gemlike and pleasurable and that calls you to submit to it as it does here for Oedipa, but in the end there is something more that her search will produce, and that is the moment of compassion.

所以你能够有种珍贵和令人愉快的象征系统,它能让你向它屈服,就像对Oedipa一样，不过在最后她的寻找得到了更多的东西,这就是同情的瞬间，我想提出的是眼泪贯穿了正本书。

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