The clock was my orienting metaphor for the world.

这个让我在世界中能找到方向象征物。

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.

重点你像朝圣一样去参观，去感受了这些象征物所具有特殊品质，你真去过那里，亲眼目睹了它。

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

好，“iconic”源自“icon”一词，通常指像雕像那样象征物。

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象征物。

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仪式之一中得至关重要，崇拜象征物成了玉米穗和火把，其象征着德墨忒尔寻找珀尔塞福涅。

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物来代表佛陀，如他开悟菩提树、一双脚印等等。

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

但在世界上126个国家里，至少有六百万，或许接近于一亿人，相信它们赛巴巴所代表神象征物。

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

几百年间都只能通过一些象征物来表现。

Or maybe even your school has a symbol.

或许你们学校也有象征物呢。

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

我意思，典人们对于这个伟大象征物再次自由了，难道不感到兴奋吗？

Well, like the other symbols, no one's really sure, but in the USA in the 1890s, a store owner decided to make a giant, get this, 1.5 meter tall chocolate bunny as a shop display.

好吧，就像其他象征物一样，没有人真确定，但在19世纪90年代美国，一位店主决定制作一个巨大、高达1.5米巧克力兔子作为店内展示品。

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.

描述这种情况一个常见方式咒杀仪式，即制作一个象征物或陶罐， 通过某种象征性联系， 将这个陶罐与所针对人关联起来。

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， 你得能够表达出来，无论通过写作、焚烧象征物、与闺蜜倾诉， 还与治疗师探讨。

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.

我想不国旗，而国家象征鸟或者某种象征物，但现在你有了这些州，比如特拉华州，它有一个小标志。

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， 抗议者们将他们压迫象征物抛入他们所谓“自由垃圾桶” ，而这恰恰也我称之为全食超市外那个垃圾箱地方。

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?

而为什么我们选择这些象征物，比如那打红玫瑰， 芬芳白百合，长茎法国郁金香， 为什么它们如此短暂？

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罗马驻军，并开始在犹太省各地破坏罗马人生命和象征物。

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

在左手，这位神手持代表女神玛阿特象征物，玛阿特秩序、真理与现实女神。

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，再次回到你之前提到社会工程概念，我们得对这些象征物心存感激。

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物，这个象征物用来敬拜活生生真神。