So,it is both the physical and symbolic center of the building.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

He's claiming only that it is available and can be adduced from what we call "evidence" in the same way that the symbolic interpretation, based on the rhetorical question, is available and can be adduced from evidence -and that these two viewpoints are irreducible.

他只是声称这是一种可能，而且可以从,我们所说的“证据“之中引证得到,同样的，基于修辞型问句之上的象征性诠释，也是一种可能，也能够引证,而且，这两种观点是不可削减的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He permits a real character like Satan to interact with a merely allegorical or symbolic character like Sin. The effect for Johnson - and who can say that this is -- that Johnson is wrong?

他允许一个真实的角色如撒旦与仅仅是寓言中才出现的,或只具备象征的意义的人物如罪恶之神互动,谁又能说约翰逊是错的呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Two Negroes were admitted, but only afterGovernor George Wallace had carried outhis symbolic threat to stand in the school house door.

VOA: standard.other

Jacob Milgrom sees a moral message at the base of this complex, symbolic picture. And that is that humans and humans alone are responsible for the rein of wickedness and death or the rein of righteousness and life.

米尔格罗姆在这这个复杂的基础上看出了一个道德上的信息，一副象征性的图画，那就是人类,应该单独承担起驾驭邪恶与死亡,正义和生存之间的责任。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

(Recording) Keita says the 28th of September is now more than just a symbolic day simply marking the anniversary of Guinea's independence.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

What the whole note is, what all these symbols are are simply representations of duration so we have a symbolic language here that's going to represent the horizontal axis the axis of duration.

什么是全音符,这些符号又都是什么呢,这些就是简单代表了持续时间,因此我们这里有一套符号语言,来代表横轴,就是时值的那条轴

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It's taking place at the heart of Europe, and we think that is an important symbolic moment,as well,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

But we do know from living cultures that people do engage in all kinds of ritual and symbolic actions because of genuine beliefs about the importance of those actions, because those rituals and symbols are extraordinarily meaningful to them.

但是我们可以在还活着的文化中知道些什么,它们蕴含在人们做的各种宗教仪式和有象征意义的行为中,因为人们诚恳地相信这些行为的重要性，因为这些仪式和象征对他们来说意义重大。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

In front of the National Monument, protesters lined the grass with symbolic tombstones honoring soldiers and civilians killed in recent U.S.military action.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

Demonstrators then prepared symbolic flag-draped coffins marking the presence of the U.S.military in different foreign countries.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

Wells Fargo's rugged but beautiful Concord stagecoaches, built in New Hampshire and employed all across the country, became symbolic of the dangerous journeys across the western plains and mountains.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

The Nobel Peace Prize is clearly a symbolic gesture.

VOA: standard.2009.10.09

But in a symbolic protest of what the State Department Wednesday termed Iran's appalling and deplorable treatment of election protestors, it is withdrawing invitations for Iranian diplomats to attend traditional U.S.embassy Fourth of July parties.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24