The word holiday originally meant " holy day, " signifying an important day on the religious calendar. Today, however, the word has nothing to do with religion.

“节日”这个词在英语义是“神圣日子”，指是宗教日历上重要日子。然而，这个词现在与宗教没有任何关系。

You know those moments in a cartoon where the animated light bulb goes off over the character's head, signifying they're about to come up with a really good idea?

想象一下动画片里，卡通灯泡在角色头顶亮了起来，意思是他们想到了 一个超棒点子。

On drawing near to the furze-covered bank and ditch which fortified the captain's dwelling he could hear voices within, signifying that operations had been already begun.

他走近加固老船长住宅那段长荆棘土堤和壕沟时，听见里面传来说话声音，这说明打捞吊桶已经开始了。

Each signifying three distinctive questions that need to be answered: What is reality? What can we know about it? And how we do attain that knowledge?

每一个都代表三个需要回答不同问题；什么是现实？关于它我们能知道什么？我们是如何获得这些知识呢？

Us wanting to break this record is signifying and putting Huntsville back on the map for the importance that it played in the Apollo program.

我们想要打破这一记录，这代表亨茨维尔在阿波罗计划发挥重要作用，并使它重新回到人们视野。

Ancient Chinese envisioned the earth as a square surrounded by the sea on all four sides, with zhongguo signifying the central country within that landmass.

古代国人将地球想象成四面环海正方形，而“国”指是这片陆地央国家。

Basically, it's a conservative form that feels like a radical one. It's some sound and fury signifying not much.

说白了 它是一种感觉上很激进但实际却很保守艺术形式 那些喧嚣啊骚动啊都没有太大意义。

Scientists think this is a representation of the animal's fitness, signifying the quality of their DNA.

科学家们认为这是动物健康状况表征，表明了它们 DNA 质量。

That there should be no mistake about her knowing where to find him he had ordered a notice board to be affixed to the garden gate at Alderworth, signifying in white letters whither he had removed.

他叫人在奥尔德华斯篱笆门上钉了一块告示牌，上面用白字写明他已搬往何处，好让她知道应该上哪儿去找他。

It is actually signifying intent to make  that the major base, if not the headquarters.

这实际上表明有意将其作为主要基地，如果不是总部话。

And we should keep in mind that everything is sound and fury signifying nothing.

我们应该记住，一切都是喧嚣和空洞，没有任何意义。

They're usually signifying beginnings and ends, right?

它们通常象征开始与结束，对吧？

Now we see a 0 and our current state is even, so we execute our second rule, which is to write a 1 to the tape signifying that yes, it's true, there is an even number of ones, and finally the machine halts.

现在我们看到一个 0 并且我们当前状态是偶数，所以我们执行第二条规则，即向磁带写入一个 1 表示是，这是真，有偶数个 1，最后机器停止。

We conducted an activity where students strung together a bracelet consisting of 28 beads signifying the length of the menstrual cycle, out of which four to seven beads were of a different color, demonstrating the days a woman bleeds.

我们开展了一项活动， 学生们将一个由 28 颗表示月经周期长短珠子组成手链串在一起， 其有 4 到 7 颗颜色不同珠子，表示女性流血日子。

That if we're using BS, a lot of it, in our business speak, it may be like Shakespeare said, " sound and fury, signifying nothing." Which brings me to my final takeaway of how to take BS out of business speak.

如果我们大量使用废话，在我们商业用语，可能就像莎士比亚所说那样，“喧哗与骚乱，没有任何意义。”这让我得出关于如何将废话从商业用语剔除最后结论。

Thee, thou and thy (signifying familiarity or social inferiority, as in most European languages today) were still very prevalent in Shakespeare's time, and Shakespeare himself made good use of the subtle social implications of using thou rather than thou.

Thee, thou 和 thy（在今天大多数欧洲语言表示熟悉或社会自卑）在莎士比亚时代仍然非常普遍，莎士比亚本人很好地利用了使用 thou 而不是 thou 微妙社会含义。

Glasser emphasizes that lasting psychological problems are usually caused by problems in our personal relationships, rather than signifying a biochemical abnormality in the brain, and distress can be remedied through repairing these relationships without recourse to psychiatric drugs.

格拉瑟强调， 持久心理问题通常源于我们个人关系问题，而非大脑生物化学异常标志，且通过修复这些关系， 无需借助精神药物， 即可缓解困扰。

To show that the double bonds aren't in any specific place, we often just show the structure with a circle in the middle signifying that the double bonds are averaged in a ring throughout the benzene group.

为了表明双键不在任何特定位置， 我们通常只显示间有一个圆圈结构，表示双键在整个苯组平均分布在一个环。

Think of your markers: first day, last day, this day: the day you started, the day you knew you had reached this milestone, and this day when you don the cap and gown signifying academic achievement.

想想你标记：第一天，最后一天，这一天：你开始那一天， 你知道你已经达到这个里程碑那一天，以及你穿上代表学术成就帽子和长袍那一天。

Drummle laughed outright, and sat laughing in our faces, with his hands in his pockets and his round shoulders raised; plainly signifying that it was quite true, and that he despised us as asses all.

德鲁姆尔放声大笑，当我们面笑个不停，双手插在口袋里，耸圆滚滚肩膀；显然表示这是千真万确，而他则把我们大家都看作傻瓜。