symbolise

英 ['sɪmbəlaɪz]

美 ['sɪmbəlaɪz]

v.  象征; 是…的象征; 代表

第三人称单数：symbolises　过去分词：symbolised　过去式：symbolised　现在分词：symbolising　

TEM8

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柯林斯词典

• → see:symbolize

英英释义

verb

• express indirectly by an image, form, or model
  1. What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?
  Synonym:typifysymbolizestand forrepresent
• represent or identify by using a symbol
  1. The poet symbolizes love in this poem
  2. These painters believed that artists should symbolize
  Synonym:symbolize

双语例句

• Irises symbolise friendship, surrounded by a halo of ivy, which stands for endurance and dependence.
  鸢尾花象征友谊，围绕着常春藤&象征忍耐和依赖。
• It could be argued that no other film actor has ever come to symbolise so many things: rugged masculinity, the frontier, even America itself.
  可以说，像他那样具多重象征意义的电影演员没有几个：他代表粗犷的男子气概、边境地带，甚至美国本身。
• The domestic pig might well symbolise prosperity to man, so closely knit and tied together were their lives.
  猪给人以一种生活富足的感觉，因此有人认为人与猪合在一起就构成了衣食无忧的生活。
• Few things symbolise the assertiveness of the Putin Era like, well, Vladimir Putin.
  没有什么能够像普京本人那样象征普京时代的强悍作风了。
• I use my office to symbolise what our business is all about, which is building people capability, he says. Our formula for success is you build up people capability, you do that first.
  我用我的办公室来象征我们企业的宗旨，那就是提高人们的能力，他表示，我们成功的秘诀是提高人们的能力，这是首先要做到的。
• So the museum's first room, A Hall in 1630, is decorated with evergreens ( a pagan symbol of hope and fertility that early Christians adoped to symbolise everlasting life).
  因此，博物馆的第一个房间，1630年的大厅，用常青树装饰（早期基督徒采用这一异教徒的希望与多产符号象征永生）。
• In Christian art, the dove was used to symbolise the Holy Ghost and was often painted above Christ's head.
  在基督教的艺术中，鸽子常常作为圣灵的标志被画在基督的头顶上方。
• For China and others, a negative ruling on reserve currency status could symbolise their concerns that the IMF remains an institution run by and for the benefit of advanced economies.
  对中国和其他国家来说，IMF不认可人民币储备货币地位将凸显它们的担忧，即IMF仍是一个由发达经济体管理并为其利益服务的机构。
• The freeing of trade and capital flows and the deregulation of domestic industry and finance have both spurred globalisation and come to symbolise it.
  开放贸易及资本的流动、放松对国内产业和金融管制不仅促进了同时标志着全球化。
• On her second birthday ( which she spent in the orphanage), the Stricklands posed for a family portrait, each clutching a donut, to symbolise their bond with the baby.
  她在孤儿院过2岁生日的当天，斯特里克兰家照了张全家福，每人手里都抓着个甜甜圈，象征他们与甜甜圈宝宝的亲情关系。