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

BNC.11633

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

• You would lose your angel wings, which symbolise freedom from time and space, freedom from birth and death, freedom from fear and illusion.
  你将失去你的天使之翼，那代表着自由的来往于时间与空间之间，不受生与死的轮回限制，不受恐惧与幻象的限制。
• Decoding the paintings is not difficult once you know what the component parts symbolise.
  一旦了解各组成部分象征什么，理解这幅画就不难了。
• Instead, the salary rises in Guangdong this week symbolise a broader shift in favour of labour that has accelerated in recent months and is likely to carry on for several years.
  与此相反的是，本周发生在广东省的加薪消息，在最近数月加速了（整体格局）向有利于工人一方的转变，并且极有可能持续数年时间。
• The gas flares symbolise the start of a process of transforming a dangerous and carbon-heavy byproduct of the mining industry.
  瓦斯火焰象征着改变煤矿行业危险的重碳副产品过程的开始。
• 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。
• In Hinduism the patterns of the peacocks feathers, resembling eyes, symbolise And stars.
  在印度教中，孔雀羽毛上像眼睛的图案代表星星。
• 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）。
• The spectacular implosion of Long Term Capital Management in 1998 has come to symbolise the perils of excessive speculation.
  长期资本管理公司在1998年轰然内部崩溃，已经成为过度投机危险的象征。
• 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 motif shows a child confined to bed, but surrounded by teddies, which symbolise security, warmth and care.
  本主题显示卧床的孩子，而是由泰迪熊，象征安全，温暖和关怀所包围。