The clock was my orienting metaphor for the world.

这个时钟是让我在世界中能找到方向的象征。

For centuries he was represented only through a set of symbols.

几百年间都只能通过一些象征现。

Okay, iconic comes from the word icon, which means like a statue, usually.

好的，“iconic”源自“icon”一词，通常指的是像雕像那样的象征。

Or maybe even your school has a symbol.

或许你们学校也有象征呢。

I mean, are people in Athens excited that this great symbol is free again?

我的意思是，雅典的人们对于这个伟大的象征再次自由了，难道不感到兴奋吗？

He actually makes a symbol of what is used to worship the living and true God.

他实际上制作了一个象征，这个象征是用敬拜活生生的真神的。

That symbol was powerful, the cobra, with royal insignia, which is known today as the uraeus.

那个象征威力巨大，就是眼镜蛇，带有皇家徽章，如今被称圣蛇像（乌赖乌斯）。

In his left hand, the god holds a symbol of the deity Maat, the goddess of order, truth, reality.

在左手，这位神手持代女神玛阿特的象征，玛阿特是秩序、真理与现实的女神。

But at least 6m people, probably closer to 100m, in 126 countries of the world, accepted them as tokens of the Divinity He personified.

但是在世界上的126个国家里，至少有六百万，或许接近于一亿人，相信它们是赛巴巴所代的神的象征。

You make the pilgrimage to that thing to see and feel that special quality that these icons have, you've actually been there and witnessed it yourself.

重点是你像朝圣一样去参观，去感受了这些象征所具有的特殊质，你真的去过那里，亲眼目睹了它。

Until shortly before then, the Buddha had been represented only by sets of symbols the tree under which he achieved enlightenment, a pair of footprints, and so on.

在那之前，教徒们一直用一些象征代佛陀，如他开悟时的菩提树、一双脚印等等。

This  only turned the unrest militant however and armed rebels destroyed the local Roman garrison and  embarked on the destruction of Roman people and symbols throughout Judea.

这仅使不满情绪转向了武装反抗，武装叛乱分子摧毁了当地的罗马驻军，并开始在犹太省各地破坏罗马人的生命和象征。

Maybe what's at play here too, again, I'm going back to the social engineering concept you brought up earlier, is that we become grateful for the tokens.

或许这里还涉及到的，再次回到你之前提到的社会工程概念，是我们变得对这些象征心存感激。

The Catalan leader Quim Torra has gone on trial in Barcelona in connection with the yellow ribbons and other separatist symbols on public buildings displayed before Spain's general election in April.

加泰罗尼亚领导人奎姆·托拉已在巴塞罗那接受审判，原因是他与4月份西班牙大选前在公共建筑上悬挂黄丝带和其他与分裂有关的象征。

And why is it that the placeholders we choose, the dozen red roses, the fragrant white lilies, the long-stemmed French tulips, why is it that they are so fleeting?

而什么我们选择的这些象征，比如那打红玫瑰， 芬芳的白百合，长茎的法国郁金香， 什么它们如此短暂？

So protesters toss symbols of their oppression into what they refer to as the freedom trash can, which also happens to be what I call the dumpster outside Whole Foods.

于是， 抗议者们将他们压迫的象征抛入他们所谓的“自由垃圾桶” ，而这恰恰也是我称之全食超市外那个垃圾箱的地方。

The cyclical narrative became essential in one of the rituals of the Eleusinian Mysteries, and the symbols of the cult became the ear of corn and a torch, which signifies Demeter's search for Persephone.

周期性叙事在厄琉息斯密仪的仪式之一中变得至关重要，崇拜的象征变成了玉米穗和火把，其象征着德墨忒尔寻找珀尔塞福涅。

I guess not the flag but the national public bird or the public and but now you have these states and it says you know Delaware and it has a little.

我想不是国旗，而是国家的象征鸟或者某种象征，但现在你有了这些州，比如特拉华州，它有一个小标志。

And then you've got to be able to communicate it so that whether it's writing, whether it's like burning it, whether it's like talking to your girlfriends about it or your therapist.

然后， 你得能够达出，无论是通过写作、焚烧象征、与闺蜜倾诉， 还是与治疗师探讨。

A common way of describing this is execration rituals, where maybe an effigy or a clay pot on which there has been established a symbolic link between the pot and the person in question.

描述这种情况的一个常见方式是咒杀仪式，即制作一个象征或陶罐， 通过某种象征性联系， 将这个陶罐与所针对的人关联起。