Symbol
['sɪmb(ə)l] or ['sɪmbl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible; 'the eagle is a symbol of the United States'.
(noun.) an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance.
編輯:珀尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A visible sign or representation of an idea; anything which suggests an idea or quality, or another thing, as by resemblance or by convention; an emblem; a representation; a type; a figure; as, the lion is the symbol of courage; the lamb is the symbol of meekness or patience.
(n.) Any character used to represent a quantity, an operation, a relation, or an abbreviation.
(n.) An abstract or compendium of faith or doctrine; a creed, or a summary of the articles of religion.
(n.) That which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty.
(n.) Share; allotment.
(n.) An abbreviation standing for the name of an element and consisting of the initial letter of the Latin or New Latin name, or sometimes of the initial letter with a following one; as, C for carbon, Na for sodium (Natrium), Fe for iron (Ferrum), Sn for tin (Stannum), Sb for antimony (Stibium), etc. See the list of names and symbols under Element.
(v. t.) To symbolize.
編輯:珀尔
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Emblem, type, sign, token, figure, representative.
錄入:洛根
同義詞及反義詞：
[See PARASITE]
布兰卡德錄入
解釋/意思:
n. a sign by which one knows a thing: an arbitrary or other conventional mark abbreviating methods of scientific expression as in algebra and esp. chemistry: an emblem: that which represents something else: a figure or letter representing something: (theol.) a creed compendium of doctrine or a typical religious rite as the Eucharist.—adjs. Symbol′ic -al pertaining to or of the nature of a symbol: representing by signs: emblematic: figurative: typical.—adv. Symbol′ically.—ns. Symbol′icalness; Symbol′ics the study of the history and contents of Christian creeds; Symbolisā′tion.—v.i. Sym′bolise to be symbolical: to resemble in qualities.—v.t. to represent by symbols.—ns. Sym′boliser Sym′bolist one who uses symbols; Sym′bolism representation by symbols or signs: a system of symbols: use of symbols: (theol.) the science of symbols or creeds.—adjs. Symbolist′ic -al.—ns. Symbol′ogy Symbolol′ogy the art of representing by symbols; Symbolol′atry undue veneration for symbols; Sym′bolry the use of symbols generally.
手打:奥斯伯特
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere 'survivals '—things which having no longer any utility continue to exist because we have inherited the tendency to make them; as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. They were once real urns holding the ashes of the dead. We cannot stop making them but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.
校對:朗达
例句/造句/用法:
- She is represented upon her monuments in masculine garb, and with a long beard as a symbol of wisdom. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But in the vernacular, the mind proceeds directly from the symbol to the thing signified. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- If Machiavelli is a symbol of the political theorist making reason an instrument of purpose, we may take Sorel as a self-conscious representative of the impulses which generate purpose. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- This odd little symbol spins gaily round the world; it seems incredible that men would have invented and made a pet of it twice over. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Prince ceased to be a single and secretive Machiavellian schemer, and became merely the crowned symbol of a Machiavellian scheme. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He has become the type and symbol for all such interchanges. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- You may take him as a symbol of the political theorist. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The point of interest is that Plato should have used such a symbol, and that so much of the Pythagorean spirit should have prevailed in him. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- He died rather as a symbol than as a man. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Still later, the stern sky denies that it ever wore so benign a symbol of hope. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Even now, she could not admit, to Ursula, that she wanted to keep it, as a memento, or a symbol. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- That peasant is more than a symbol of the privacy of human interest: he is a warning against the incurable romanticism which clings about the idea of a revolution. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- There is scarcely anything that we can suppose to be a religious or mystical symbol at all in his productions. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This figure was either regarded as the god or as the image or symbol of the god, for whose worship the temple existed. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It must be used because it is a symbol of the collective life of mankind in general. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- It is only by the use of words as symbols that scientific thought is possible. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- There are names, and Christian symbols, and prayers, or sentences expressive of Christian hopes, carved upon nearly every sarcophagus. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- These were but the outward and visible symbols of his westering tendencies. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In 1837 Dalton wrote: Berzelius's symbols are horrifying: a young student in chemistry might as soon learn Hebrew as make himself a cquainted with them. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- We move amidst generalities and symbols . 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Here are the symbols. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- For words, theories, symbols, slogans, abstractions of all kinds are nothing but the porous vessels into which life flows, is contained for a time, and then passes through. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The symbols are thus made by deviations from the straight line, of different lengths and of varied combinations. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- A group of symbols, such as this, expressing a molecule of a compound is called a _formula_. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Mr. Morse's telegraph is a recording instrument, that embosses the symbols upon paper, with a point pressed down upon it by an electro-magnet. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- It was considered a great advantage of this telegraph at the time, that it exhibited actual letters of the alphabet, instead of symbols. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- They arrest growth on a low plane, the plane of specific physical symbols. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- But in an advanced culture much which has to be learned is stored in symbols. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The pupil learns symbols without the key to their meaning. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Written symbols are even more artificial or conventional than spoken; they cannot be picked up in accidental intercourse with others. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
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