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TOEFL TEM8
外刊例句
- It was an emblem of the young country’s determination to survive. And it is a dominant theme in water policy to this day.
它是这个年轻国家生存决心的象征,而且至今依然是其水务政策的主旋律。
——《经济学人》 - In 1945, The Times devised an emblem to match its global ambitions.
1945年,《纽约时报》设计了一款标志,以匹配其全球雄心。
——《纽约时报》
基本释义
[noun] a heraldic device or symbolic object as a distinctive badge of a nation, organization, or family
[名词] 作为一个国家、组织或家族的独特徽章的纹章装置或象征性物体
深入解读
Emblem 一词源自希腊语 emblema (嵌饰),16世纪80年代经拉丁语 emblema (镶嵌装饰品)进入英语后,主要用来表示代表国家、组织或家族的“徽章、图案、标记”,即选定用来象征一个国家、组织或家族的符号、图案或实物装置,比如:
- 美国的国徽——白头海雕
America's national emblem, the bald eagle
从这个概念出发, emblem 很自然地就被用来引申指“象征、标志”,也就是象征某种特定品质或概念的东西,比如:
- 心形是爱的象征。
The heart is an emblem of love. - 白旗是投降的象征。
The white flag is the emblem of surrender.
名人名言
The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy.
向日葵是人们最喜爱的坚贞象征。
出自美国著名神话和传说故事作家托马斯·布尔凡奇(Thomas Bulfinch)。
同近义词
- symbol: a shape or sign used to represent something such as an organization
- token: a thing serving as a visible or tangible representation of a fact, quality, feeling, etc.
- crest: a distinctive device representing a family or corporate body, borne above the shield of a coat of arms (originally as worn on a helmet) or separately reproduced, for example on writing paper