signify
- v. 意味着，象征；<正式> 表达，显示（感情、意愿等）；<正式> 要紧，有重要性；<美，非正式>（作为一种游戏或习俗，美国黑人之间）相互吹牛，相互辱骂
[ 第三人称单数 signifies 现在分词 signifying 过去式 signified 过去分词 signified ]
柯林斯英汉双解大词典
signify /ˈsɪɡnɪˌfaɪ/ CET6 TEM4 ( signifying, signified, signifies )
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V-T If an event, a sign, or a symbol signifies something, it is a sign of that thing or represents that thing. 表示; 意味着
例：These were not the only changes that signified the end of boyhood.
这些不是表示男孩时代已结束的惟一变化。
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V-T If you signify something, you make a sign or gesture in order to communicate a particular meaning. (用符号或手势) 表达
例：Two jurors signified their dissent.
两个陪审员表达了他们的异议。
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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He nodded to signify that he agreed.
他点头表示同意。
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Eating is a metaphor that is sometimes used to signify marriage.
“吃”是一个比喻，有时用来表示婚姻。
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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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