They always mean or signify far more than they're supposed to if their job is simply to make a comparison.

他们总是比简单的完成一个比喻,而一位或者代表了更多的深层含义。

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So, whether or not the email is addressed specifically to you in like the two field or if maybe you were BCC'd or it's a big email list of which you're just part, that could signify that this is in fact useful for you.

所以，不管这个邮件是不是,单独发给你的,或者这个邮件有一个大的邮件列表,而你正在其中，其实这也暗示了,这个邮件对你是有用的。

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And so Milton writes : "And when we return to our native Olympus" and in a classically oriented poem such as this a phrase like "our native Olympus" would always serve to signify the Christian heaven.

所以在83页他写到：,“当我们回到奥林匹斯山“,在古典主义的诗里，如这句,“我们的奥林匹斯山“通常象征着基督教的天堂。

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It can signify battle, but Hobbes says it can also signify the will to contend, simply the desire or the will to engage in conflict, " renders something like a state of nature.

这可以表示为斗争，但霍布斯说这同样可以表示竞争的意志，仅仅就是参与冲突的欲望或愿望，这些构成了“自然状态。

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They came to stand for ministers, they came to signify allegorically ministers as well.

也开始作为神职人员的代表出现，他们非常讽喻性的代表着那些神职人员。

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And as in all of these early lyrics, Jove conventionally throughout the Renaissance is used as a name within these classical fictions to signify the Christian God.

在早期的抒情诗里，贯穿文艺复兴的始终,丘比特在传统意义上意在，在众多的古典神话中,使上帝意象化，符号化。

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We have no idea what this menacing contraption actually is supposed to look like or what it's actually intended to signify, but we can know, I think, with some certainty that it's not scrannel.

我们无从得知这个威胁性的装置,实际上是什么样或者要代表什么，但是我们可以通过一些并不细小的确切性得知。

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